Guidance development
Guidance development
The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme
The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) is an initiative of the National Dental Advisory Committee (NDAC) and operates within NHS Education for Scotland (NES).
The NDAC comprises representatives of all branches of the dental profession and acts in an advisory capacity to the Chief Dental Officer. It considers issues that are of national importance in Scottish dentistry and also provides feedback to other bodies within the Scottish Government on related, relevant healthcare matters.
SDCEP was established in 2004 under the direction of the NDAC to give a structured approach to providing clinical guidance for the dental profession. The programme’s primary aim is to develop guidance that supports dental teams to provide quality patient care. SDCEP brings together the best available information that is relevant to priority areas in dentistry, and presents guidance on best practice in a form that can be interpreted easily and implemented. The guidance recommendations may be based on a variety of sources of information including research evidence, guidelines, legislation, policies and expert opinion as appropriate to the subject. SDCEP guidance takes a variety of forms to suit the diverse topics being addressed.
Further details about the updating of the SDCP Prevention and Treatment of Periodontal Diseases in Primary Care guidance are given in Methodology.
Recognising that publication of guidance alone is likely to have a limited influence on practice, SDCEP also contributes to the research and development of interventions to enhance the translation of guidance recommendations into practice through its participation in the TRiaDS (Translation Research in a Dental Setting) collaboration (www.triads.org.uk).
All of SDCEP’s activities are overseen by a steering group that includes representatives of guidance development groups and the dental institutions in Scotland. Current membership of this steering group is available at www.sdcep.org.uk.
SDCEP is funded by NHS Education for Scotland (NES). The views and opinions of NES have not influenced the recommendations made in this guidance.
The Guidance Development Group (GDG) for this guidance update comprised individuals from a range of branches of the dental professions, including general dental practitioners, dental hygienists and dental therapists, and a patient representative.
| Madeleine Murray (Chair) | Specialist in Restorative Dentistry, Edinburgh; Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Glasgow |
| Sabina Camber | Dental Hygienist, Devon; Representative of the British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy |
| Susan Carson | Consultant in Public Health/Dental Public Health, NHS Forth Valley/Southeast and Tayside Dental Public Health Network |
| Grant Creaney | Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Specialist Registrar in Dental Public Health, University of Glasgow |
| Shauna Culshaw | Professor of Periodontology & Immunology, University of Glasgow; Honorary Consultant in Periodontics, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde; Honorary Researcher, Public Health Scotland |
| Ian Dunn | Specialist Periodontist, Liverpool; Representative of the British Society of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry |
| Julian Ekiert | Patient Representative |
| Paul Friel | General Dental Practitioner, Paisley |
| Rose Marie Goutcher | General Dental Practitioner, Glasgow; Specialty Dentist in Restorative Dentistry, Glasgow Dental Hospital, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde |
| Maxine Lee | BSc Oral Health Sciences Programme Lead and Honorary Clinical Teacher, Dundee Dental Hospital and School, University of Dundee |
| Michael Paterson | Consultant and Specialist in Restorative Dentistry, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesborough; Specialist Periodontist, Leeds |
| Philip Preshaw | Dean of Dentistry and Professor of Periodontology, Dundee Dental Hospital and School, University of Dundee; Representative of the British Society of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry |
| Amir Savage | Specialist Periodontist and Implant Dentist, Winchester |
| Shazad Saleem | General Dental Practitioner, Oldham; Representative of the British Society of Periodontology and Implant Dentistry |
| Brian Stevenson | Consultant in Restorative Dentistry, Dundee Dental Hospital and School |
The GDG would like to thank:
Anne Littlewood, Cochrane Oral Health Information Specialist, University of Manchester, and Alan Gillies, NHS Education for Scotland Knowledge Services, for performing the literature searches that underpin the development of this guidance.
Beatriz Goulao, Research Fellow, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, for supporting the development of patient information.
Huma Aiman, Dental Core Trainee, for assisting with analysis of practitioner interviews.
Julian Fisher, Director, Zero Water Day Partnership, for helpful discussions regarding sustainability.
Bill Jenkins, Richard Wellbury and Michaela Zilinska for supplying clinical photographs.
Sara Griffin for supplying non-clinical photographs of dental equipment.
The Programme Development Team (PDT) operates within NES and is responsible for the guidance development methodology. Working with members of the GDG, the team facilitates all aspects of guidance development. The following members of the PDT were directly involved in the development of this edition of Prevention and Treatment of Periodontal Diseases in Primary Care.
| Jan Clarkson | Programme Director, SDCEP; Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean, NHS Education for Scotland; Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, University of Dundee |
| Douglas Stirling | Programme Lead (Guidance), SDCEP, NHS Education for Scotland |
| Samantha Rutherford | Specialist Research Lead, SDCEP, NHS Education for Scotland; SDCEP Lead for Periodontal guidance update |
| Iain Colthart | Specialist Research Lead, SDCEP, NHS Education for Scotland |
| Michele West | Specialist Research Lead, SDCEP, NHS Education for Scotland |
| Linda Young | Programme Lead (Implementation), TRiaDS, NHS Education for Scotland |
| Adalia Ikiroma | Senior Researcher, TRiaDS, NHS Education for Scotland |
| Laura Beaton | Specialist Research Lead, TRiaDS, NHS Education for Scotland |
| Margaret Mooney | Senior Administrative Officer, NHS Education for Scotland |
| Anne Coats | Senior Administrative Officer, NHS Education for Scotland |
All contributors to SDCEP are required to declare their financial, intellectual and other relevant interests. At each group meeting, participants are asked to confirm whether there are any changes to these. Should any potential conflicts of interest arise, these are discussed and actions for their management agreed. All declarations of interest and decisions about potential conflicts of interest are available on request.