Inhalation Sedation Machine Loan Scheme
The SAAD Inhalation Sedation Loan Scheme is currently paused.
We will update this webpage as soon as further information is available.
Updated July 2024
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Uploaded 03.02.2025
Recent Documents
NHS England >> Clinical standards for dental anxiety management (2024)
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Dental Sedation and Breastfeeding Factsheet
The Breastfeeding Network
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IACSD
IACSD Standards for Conscious Sedation in the Provision of Dental Care (V1.1) – 2020 Report
Standards for Conscious Sedation in the Provision of Dental Care and Accreditation - link to the RCS website (for IACSD & STAC) NB: The role of the IACSD Accreditation Sub-Committee was taken over by the Sedation Training Accreditation Committee (STAC) in June 2017. The procedure for course accreditation remains the same but the email address for applications has changed to stac@rcseng.ac.uk.
FAQs on the IACSD page of the RCSEng website
SSPS
SAAD Safe Sedation Practice Scheme – March 2025 revision
SDCEP
NHS Education for Scotland. Conscious Sedation in Dentistry Dental Clinical Guidance 3rd Ed (SDCEP)
Commissioning Dental Services: Service Standards for Conscious Sedation in a Primary Care Setting
SAAD Documents
SAAD Safe Sedation Practice Scheme - 2023
Referral for Dentistry with Conscious Sedation. A referral form (in conjunction with DSTG)
Toolkit for Conscious Sedation Research
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External Documents
The following three documents constitute the current national guidance...
Safe Sedation Practice for Healthcare Procedures: Standards and Guidance
IACSD Standards for Conscious Sedation in the Provision of Dental Care (2020)
Sedation in Children and Young People: National Institute for Clinical Excellence (2010)
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Further documents of interest...
A joint report by the CMO & CDO on General Anaesthesia and Sedation.
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DSTG Logbook of Clinical Experience in Conscious Sedation (download)
When you need further space for experience notes you can simply print off page 3 again
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The following links are being updated - if the document is not available please try again later, or email contact@saad.org.uk
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'Guidelines for the Appointment of Dentists with a Special Interest (DwSI) in Conscious Sedation'
A joint report by the DoH and Faculty of General Dental Practice
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Indicator of Sedation Need (IOSN) - Questionnaire for Patients
Advice on how this should be used can be found in the SAAD Digest.
Coulthard P. The Indicator of Sedation Need (IOSN).SAAD Digest 2012;
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Midazolam: NPSA Rapid Response Report RRR011 (1) & Controlled Drug Regulations
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Sedation in Dentistry: Undergraduate Training
Guidelines for Teachers
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Training for Safe Practice in Advanced Sedation Techniques for Adult Patients
A Discussion Paper
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Training in Conscious Sedation for Dentistry
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Standards for Postgraduate Education
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The Competent Graduate
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SAAD Symposium Past Programmes
2024 Who does what to whom, where and when?
2023 Caring for an increasingly complex population - personal insights and personalised care
2022 The best way to predict your future is to create it
2021 Thinking Outside the Box
2020 Symposium postponed due to covid pandemic
2019 SAAD Symposium in Manchester
2018 Challenges for the Future
2017 SAAD Diamond Jubilee. A Strong Foundation for a Bright Future
2016 Sedation is Alive and Well in General Dental Practice
2015 Dental Sedation: Staying Ahead of the Curve
2014 Drugs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
2013 Commissioning Sedation: Delivering for Patients
2012 Who Needs Sedation?
2011 Conscious Sedation: Beyond the Basics
2010 Dental Sedation 2010: New Guidance and Best Practice
2009 Practical Sedation: Trances, Needles & Consent
2008 Fundamentals of Safety Culture in Sedation Practice
2007 Sedation in Primary Care: Progress and Politics
The SAAD Digest is the Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry and has been published regularly in London UK, since 1970. It has been produced in its current format since 2006, and copies of all editions produced since then are available below to view or download in PDF. From 2024 two editions were published each year, in March and September.
The Digest has become a unique and invaluable international forum for all interested in the advancement of knowledge in pain and anxiety control for dentistry.
The SAAD Digest (Journal of the Society for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry) is dedicated to advancing the understanding of pain and anxiety control in dentistry through empirical, theoretical and critical inquiry. It provides a platform for the analysis and discussion of practices, methods, theories, technologies, pedagogies and histories relating to sedation.
The mission of the SAAD Digest is twofold: first, to become a leading journal for research relating to pain and anxiety management in dentistry. Second, to establish and develop pain and anxiety management in dentistry research in all regions of the world to achieve greater representation and increased global diversity.
We invite novel and rigorous articles that offer new insight or knowledge or contribute to the field by representing and developing new practices, methods, theories, histories and pedagogies. Such contributions may come in a variety of peer-reviewed formats.
We welcome research articles, reports of randomised controlled trials, articles derived from diploma dissertations, practice-related articles, education, professional opinion, case reports and general articles.
- Case reports should be of no more than 1,500 words
- Editorial, letters, short communications up to 1,500 words
- All other manuscripts should be of no more that 3,000 words.
Manuscripts should meet the following criteria: they should be original, clearly written, relevant to dentistry, reader-orientated (in other words written to appeal to the readership of any interested in pain and anxiety control in dentistry) and designed to inform, add to discussion or debate or entertain. Research papers should also have appropriate study methods, valid data and conclusions that are supported by the data.
Current volume
Volume 41(II) (2025) - available online for SAAD Members
Non members can click here for further information about this issue of the Digest.
Submission deadlines
30 June (for publication in the March issue)
31 December (for publication in the September issue)
Previous volumes
Contact
Please contact digest@saad.org.uk with any enquiries.
SAAD Newsletter
SAAD publishes two newsletters each year, one in the summer and one in the winter. These are in an electronic format and can be viewed via the links below.
Please contact us with any enquiries.
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Congratulations, having passed 2 assessments, this qualifies you for 90 minutes of CPD time.
You can only evidence one certificate for this CPD, so perhaps try the other assessments before collecting your certificate.