Journal of the British Society of Special Care Dentistry
December 2025
Volume: 25
Issue: 3
DOI: 10.63507/VCXA6460

Title: Book review: The NHS England Clinical Guide to Dental Anxiety Management

Author: J Hare

Abstract: 

The NHS England Clinical Guide to Dental Anxiety Management (NHS England 2023; updated 2024) represents a major policy development in the delivery of anxiety management across community and primary dental care. It replaces the earlier Service Standards for Conscious Sedation in a Primary Care Setting (Department of Health 2015), signalling a fundamental shift in philosophy, from sedation as a discrete intervention, towards a holistic, tiered model of anxiety management; encompassing behavioural, psychological and pharmacological approaches.

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Articles from BSSCD Journal 25-3

Article Title Author Page start Page end
Editorial Newton T 101 103
BSSCD AGM Various 104 107
Announcements and diary BSSCD 108 110
Profile: Andrew Geddis-Regan A Geddis-Regan 112 112
Profile: Richard Fitzgerald R Fitzgerald 113 114
Book review: CBT for dental anxiety: a manual for the dental team S Naidu 115 115
Book review: The NHS England Clinical Guide to Dental Anxiety Management J Hare 116 118
Everyday Miracles Shah P 119 119
 Peer Reviewed Papers      

Looked after children: legislation and consenting for dental treatment

 Brown N, Tkacz K, Reynolds C 120 126
A report of a dental service for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD) awaiting kidney transplant at Lancashire  Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Wooi M, Woywodt A, O’Mahony F 127 136
 Peer Reviewed Case Reports      
The use of lateral oblique radiographs where other approaches are contraindicated – a case series

O’Halloran A, Shah P

 137 141
Learning from hindsight: delayed management of mandibular fractures in a patient with a learning disability Hayat S, Pullan S, Patel S, Yeo X H 142 154