NEBDN · Post-registration
Special Care Dental Nursing
Consent and capacity law, disability and reasonable adjustments, conditions and their oral impact, access and domiciliary care.
The certificate for nurses supporting patients whose care has to be adapted — because of a disability, a medical condition, a mental health problem, frailty, or a barrier that has nothing to do with their mouth. It is the most law-heavy of the six: the Mental Capacity Act and its five principles, who may consent for an adult and who may not, safeguarding, and the Equality Act duty to make reasonable adjustments. The clinical half runs across the conditions themselves and what each one does to a mouth or to the medicines a patient takes, then out of the surgery altogether into domiciliary visits, transport, scheduling and the settings care can be delivered in.
The 5 topics
Each topic has a free study guide covering what it examines. 1 of them also has a free quiz on this site.
Consent, Capacity and the Law
The five statutory principles, assessing capacity, who may consent, best interests, safeguarding and equality law.
Disability and Inclusive Practice
Impairment versus disability, the models of disability, barriers and the adjustments that remove them, integrated care.
Conditions and Oral Impact
Conditions from childhood and adult life, medically compromising conditions, medicines, mental health and lesion recognition.
Communication and Access
Augmentative communication, behavioural techniques, moving and handling, referral and transport, domiciliary care.
Oral Health, Pain and Anxiety
Oral hygiene aids adapted to impairment, denture care, dry mouth and mucositis, anxiety and phobia, sedation and GA.
How this certificate is examined in the app
The app treats each certificate as its own qualification. Its 75-question, 90-minute mock test draws only on this certificate's own 220 questions — a mock that mixed in another one while you are revising this would tell you nothing useful.
The other certificates
All in the same app — one purchase covers all 6.
Dental Radiography
Physics and dose, IR(ME)R duties, projection technique, image faults and radiographic anatomy.
Oral Health Education
Caries and periodontal prevention, diet, fluoride, and the behaviour change techniques that make advice stick.
Dental Sedation Nursing
Sedation drugs, patient assessment and consent, monitoring and equipment, and recovery and discharge.
Orthodontic Dental Nursing
Occlusal classification and development, removable, fixed and functional appliances, materials and retention.
Dental Implant Nursing
Bone biology and osseointegration, assessment and planning, chairside surgical support, and professional practice.
Revise anywhere, with the whole Post-Reg Mastery bank
This site publishes the app's free sample — 72 of 1160 questions, across 6 of 26 topics. Dental Post-Reg Mastery carries the full bank offline across all 6 certificates, so you can revise on the bus, between patients, or the night before.
- All 1160 questions
- Every question across all 6 certificates, including the 20 topics this site cannot unlock.
- 75-question mock test
- Timed at 90 minutes, drawn from one certificate at a time.
- An explanation every time
- Every answer explains itself and cites where it comes from, right or wrong.
- Progress you can see
- History and per-topic results show which certificates still need the work.
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