Registered dentists are legally entitled to prescribe from the entirety of the British National Formulary (BNF) and BNF for Children (BNFC). However, dental prescribing within the National Health Service (NHS) is restricted to those drugs contained within the List of Dental Preparations in the Dental Practitioners Formulary (DPF). Since 2005 the DPF, which was formerly a distinct publication, h…