Council of European Dentists MANUAL OF DENTAL PRACTICE 2014 (Edition 5)
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, EU Manual of Dental Practice 2014
Edition 5
Council of European Dentists
MANUAL OF DENTAL PRACTICE 2014
(Edition 5)
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Authors:
Dr Anthony S Kravitz OBE
and
Professor Alison Bullock
Professor Jon Cowpe
with
Ms Emma Barnes
Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
© The Council of European Dentists
February 2014
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, EU Manual of Dental Practice 2014
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, EU Manual of Dental Practice 2014
Edition 5
Preface
The revised EU Manual of Dental Practice (Edition 5) was commissioned by the Council of European Dentists 1 in April 2013. The work has
been undertaken by Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom. Although the unit had editorial control over the content, most of the
changes were suggested and validated by the member associations of the Council.
About the authors2
Dr Anthony Kravitz graduated in dentistry from the University of Manchester, England, in 1966. Following a short period working in a
hospital he has worked in general dental practice ever since. From 1988 to 1994 he chaired the British Dental Association’s Dental
Auxiliaries’ Committee and from 1997 until 2003, was the chief negotiator for the UK’s NHS general practitioners, when head of the
relevant BDA committee. From 1996 until 2003 he was chairman of the Ethics and Quality Assurance Working Group of the then EU
Dental Liaison Committee.
He gained a Master’s degree from the University of Wales in 2005 and subsequently was awarded Fellowships at both the Faculty of
General Dental Practice and the Faculty of Dental Surgery, at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Cardiff University, Wales and his research interests include healthcare systems and the use of
dental auxiliaries. He is also co-chair of the General Dental Council’s disciplinary body, the Fitness to Practise Panel.
Anthony was co-author (with Professor Elizabeth Treasure) of the third and fourth editions of the EU Manual of Dental Practice (2004 and
2009)
President of the BDA from May 2004 until May 2005, he was awarded an honour (OBE) by Her Majesty The Queen in 2002.
Professor Alison Bullock: After gaining a PhD in 1988, Alison taught for a year before taking up a research post at the School of
Education, University of Birmingham in 1990. She was promoted to Reader in Medical and Dental Education in 2005 and served as co-
Director of Research for three years from October 2005.
She took up her current post as Professor and Director of the Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education
(CUREMeDE) at Cardiff University in 2009. With a focus on the education and development of health professionals, her research interests
include: knowledge transfer and exchange; continuing professional development and impact on practice; workplace based learning.
She was President of the Education Research Group of the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) 2010-12.
Professor Jonathan Cowpe graduated in dentistry from the University of Manchester in 1975. Following training in Oral Surgery he was
appointed Senior Lecturer/Consultant in Oral Surgery at Dundee Dental School in 1985. He gained his PhD, on the application of
quantitative cyto-pathological techniques to the early diagnosis of oral malignancy, in 1984. He was appointed Senior Lecturer at the
University of Wales College of Medicine in 1992 and then to the Chair in Oral Surgery at Bristol Dental School in 1996. He was Head of
Bristol Dental School from 2001 to 20004.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh from 2005 to 2008 and is Chair of the Joint
Committee for Postgraduate Training in Dentistry (JCPTD). He has been Director of Dental Postgraduate Education in Wales since 2009.
His particular interest now lies in the field of dental education. He was Co-ordinator for an EU six partner, 2-year project, DentCPD,
providing a dental CPD inventory, including core topics, CPD delivery guidelines, an e-learning module and guidelines (2010-12).
Ms Emma Barnes: After completing a degree in psychology and sociology, Emma taught psychology and research methods for health
and social care vocational courses, and later, to first year undergraduates. Following her MSc in Qualitative Research Methods she started
her research career as a Research Assistant in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Bristol, before moving to Cardiff
University in 2006, working firstly in the Department of Child Health and then the Department of Psychological Medicine and Clinical
Neurosciences.
In 2010 Emma joined Cardiff Unit for Research and Evaluation in Medical and Dental Education (CUREMeDE) as a Research Associate.
Working in close collaboration with the Wales Deanery, (School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education), her work focuses on
topics around continuing professional development for medical and dental health professionals, and knowledge transfer and exchange.
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