10 Commandments for Staying Out of Trouble – PDP131

How often do you review your risk management? Do you follow the appropriate radiography guidelines or palpate canines when you are supposed to? These are not the exhilarating or rewarding parts of our clinical practice but they are fundamental and foundational. In this episode with Dr. Lucy Nichols, a general dentist who also does some dento-legal work in the UK, she shares her 10 commandments for safer dentistry and avoiding dento-legal claims. https://youtu.be/0MhOC-LLxbI Protrusive Dental Pearl: 'I don't have time' is just not true. It's a lie we tell ourselves. We should reframe it. Instead, we should say "I'm not making [task / activity / necessity] a PRIORITY in my life right now". We should reflect on what are we making a priority in our lives right now. Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Highlights of this episode: * 1:17 Protrusive Dental Pearl* 4:33 Dr. Lucy Nichols’ Introduction* 8:08 10 Commandments for Staying Out of Trouble: * Thou Shalt Take Bitewings on Children 9:08* Thou Shalt take Bitewings on Adults 13:31* Thou Shalt Always be Suspicious of a Non-healing socket 15:29 * Thou Shalt Always be Suspicious of Sore Patches on the Side of the Tongue or on the Cheek 18:21* Thou Shalt Know How to Deal with a Hypochlorite Injury 21:24* Thou Shalt Not Use Chlorhexidine Mouthwash as your Root Canal Irrigant 30:34* Thou Shalt do Further Charting when you have 3s and 4s on your BPE 35:06* Thou Shalt Not Rely on Only a Single Visit Scaling without Local Anaesthetic on Patients with Increased Pocketing 40:42* Thou Shalt Not Underestimate ID Nerve Injuries 45:29* Thou Shalt Always Palpate for Canines at Age 10 53:39 PDF Infographic available in the 'Protrusive Vault' in the App (iOS and Android) Check out Dr. Lucy Nichols website If you loved this episode, please check out Passion and Values in Dentistry Click below for full episode transcript: Jaz's Introduction: When was the last time you did some risk management CPD? What I mean by that is, you went on a course to learn about how to be a more careful dentist, how to follow appropriate radiography guidelines or cross infection protocols, that kind of stuff. The stuff that's not sexy, unfortunately, right? Jaz's Introduction:Let's face it, you know, it's a composite veneers. That's where we gonna go on. But you know, this is super, super important stuff. And today's episode which we streamed live to Facebook. So thank you, Dr. Lucy Nichols, for being part of that live. And so we do have a few shoutouts here and there. And thanks to all of you who joined live on Facebook, it's on the Protrusive Dental Podcast facebook page, if you're not part of it already. Occasionally we do the live and it was a great episode. These are the 10 COMMANDMENTS FOR STAYING OUT OF TROUBLE. And where they stem from is Lucy Nichols who is a general dentist, she does some dental legal work. And as part of seeing lots of cases, she saw a pattern that dentists,