SAAD Digest
March 2024
Volume: 40
Issue: 1

Title: Profile: 
Author(s): I. Suida

Abstract: 

An introduction to new SAAD Trustee, Imran Suida. 

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Articles from Digest 40(1)

Article title	Page start	Page end
Editorial	2	2
Peer reviewed papers
Remimazolam compared to midazolam for dental sedation: an umbrella review	3	8
A review of the awareness and use of airway assessment techniques in conscious sedation in dentistry	9	14
Improving safety and efficiency in special care dentistry through quality improvement of patient information in the Belfast Trust	15	18
Patient experiences and outcomes following intravenous sedation in an oral surgery setting	19	22
An investigation of bispectral index monitoring when providing intravenous sedation for adults with severe cognitive disability	23	27
Are we providing an effective sedation service? An evaluation of a new conscious sedation service in primary special dental care	28	32
An audit of the use of flumazenil for sedation within the Special Care Dentistry Department (CDS Cycle 7) and seven-year comparison	33	36
Unsuccessful conscious sedation on patients with a learning disability and / or autism: a multi-site service evaluation	37	41
The effectiveness of dental nurse led Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) on the dentally anxious patient: a service evaluation	42	46
Case reports
Dental treatment for a 15-year-old patient with Nicolaides- Baraitser Syndrome, under intravenous sedation with midazolam: a case report	47	49
The use of inhalation sedation to manage delayed eruption of permanent teeth, hypodontia and caries in a child patient	50	53
Case report: A paediatric patient with molar incisor hypomineralisation and hypodontia, treated with inhalation and intravenous sedation for extractions of deciduous and permanent molars	54	56
Opinion	57	59
Journal Scan	60	68
Essay prizes
Dexmedetomidine: pharmacology and use as a sedative agent	69	76
Do children from more deprived backgrounds have a higher chance of becoming dentally anxious?	77	80
Symposium 2023	81	89
Profile	90	90
Forum	92	97