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Oral healthcare team wellbeing

Mental health and wellbeing for oral healthcare teams

British Dental Journal volume 235, pages 598–599 (2023)Cite this article

Key points

  • Ensuring that those working in oral healthcare are enabled to feel safe and comfortable in their work is central to healthcare delivery.

  • There are multiple threats to wellbeing within dentistry that operate at the level of the individual, their workplace and the system (funding and regulatory) within which dentistry is practised.

  • Addressing these threats requires interventions at all three levels.

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  1. Professor of Psychology, King´s College London Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, London, UK

    Tim Newton

  2. Interim Chief Dental Officer for England, Lincolnshire, UK

    Jason Wong

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Newton, T., Wong, J. Mental health and wellbeing for oral healthcare teams. Br Dent J 235, 598–599 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-023-6439-8

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