Katie is a trainee dental nurse who joined her dental practice in March 2020 – just a few weeks before ‘Lockdown 1’. Here we speak to Katie about her experiences as a trainee dental nurse in the current ever-changing dental world. It's amazing what a positive attitude she still has towards her role – she is a true inspiration to us all.

“Coronavirus has inspired us to get creative with the 15th Mouth Cancer 10 KM Awareness Walk, which is the only walk for mouth cancer anywhere in the world.   This is the walk for the dental profession and we’re hoping many dental practices up and down the country sign up to take part and make this the largest walk to date”. 

Dentist and Mouth Cancer Foundation President, Dr Philip Lewis

Due to the effects of Covid-19 or coronavirus on dental practices, DNN is offering a free six-month extension on the completion of record of competence assessments and IPC lead assessments to all students who started any DNN certificate course* between January 2020 - June 2020. 

As practices start to reopen after the Covid-19 lockdown, teams are finding new ‘normals’ and are learning to work in different ways to get practices up and running again. We spoke with Adam, a dental hygienist and therapist, who has had a change of role following lockdown to help his practice get back on track.

With dental practices re-openning, there is likely to be a huge backlog of patients who are going to have their dental appointments delayed and rescheduled over the coming weeks and months. It is now more important than ever to keep the public and our patients informed on how to maintain good oral hygiene.