Successful Petition to Save NHS Dentistry
A petition to ’Save NHS Dentistry and Make It Fit For The 21st Century’ has attracted over 199,000 of its target 200,000 signatures (at the time of publishing on 12th March).
A petition to ’Save NHS Dentistry and Make It Fit For The 21st Century’ has attracted over 199,000 of its target 200,000 signatures (at the time of publishing on 12th March).
As the GDC set about restricting live Fitness to Practise (FTP) hearings in the name of economy, there is another part of their budget that appears safe from cost cutting. The GDC are presently seeking tenders for a contract valued at £7 million to provide them with a particular strand of legal services.
NHS dental patients have been dealt a further hammer blow by a government announcement that patient charges are to rise by 4% from April 1st 2024.
Forty Two English Integrated Care Boards (ICB’s) are now able to influence how NHS dental funding is allocated in their area. Despite the constraints of what is still described as a “National contract,” there appears to be some flexibility.
Budgets are primarily about raising revenue. Not spending it. But how and what is raised ultimately determines what is spent. And after years of crying for additional funding, the 2024 budget left dental professionals who deliver NHS contracts feeling decidedly overlooked.
While there has been a lull in “greedy dentist” stories, they are never far away. The incongruous spectacle of MP’s demanding that dental graduates work in the NHS has not discouraged at least one health minister from a particularly questionable bolstering of their own remuneration.
Antiresorptive drugs, used to treat osteoporosis and metastatic bone disease, can complicate dental implant procedures by increasing the risk of medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ). This systematic review investigates how these drugs affect the success and complications associated with osseointegrated dental implants. Key findings Antiresorptive drugs significantly increase the risk of (MRONJ), accounting for [read the full story...]
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The study assesses the impact of antibiotic prophylaxis on the incidence of infective endocarditis following invasive dental procedures, specifically focusing on the risk reduction for high-risk individuals.
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The blog provides insights on cracked teeth syndrome survival rates in terms of its types and treatment outcomes (monitoring, RCT, restorative treatments).
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