Dental Access and UDA’s Raised Again
Once again questions about the lack of access to NHS dentistry are becoming a recurring feature in parliament. And now it seems that even the government and its supporters are blaming the UDA system.
1 comments 1 commentsGDC Registration Numbers Remain Steady
After another rollercoaster year for the profession, the GDC has now published figures from the updated register including the number of registered dentists coming into 2022.
Prospect Of New Contract Unlikely As Dentists In Prototypes Are ‘Thrown Under The Bus’
The British Dental Association has said that ‘Pioneering NHS dentists’ have been “Thrown under the bus” by the Government.
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BBC Apprentice Candidates Design Electric Brushes
The long-running TV programme ’The Apprentice’ last night tasked the teams to design an electric toothbrush aimed at children. Amy’s sub team turned Francesca’s vision of a plain orange children’s toothbrush into an out of this world design. Tasked with creating a toothbrush aimed at children, the boys come up with a magical idea.
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Regional Press On Alert - 1000 Dentists Quit NHS in 2021
Nearly 1,000 dentists left the NHS last year, revealed in response to a parliamentary question. The question was posed by Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, who represents the Kingston & Surbiton constituency which lost 91 NHS dentists.
Read more: Regional Press On Alert - 1000 Dentists Quit NHS in 2021
Healthy gums could potentially reduce Covid-19 severity
COVID-19 could pass into people’s lungs from saliva with the virus moving directly from mouth to bloodstream - particularly if individuals are suffering from gum disease, according to research published late last year.
Read more: Healthy gums could potentially reduce Covid-19 severity
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NEARLY As Bad As 2020 – DentistGoneBadd's Review Of 2021
You thought 2020 was bad? Well, 2021 wasn’t THAT far behind.
The Impatient Patient: New Patient Generation In The Goldfish Attention Span Era.
Over the past 20 years, I’ve been working within the UK and American Dental Industry to support dental practices growth through a number of different engagement and marketing strategies. However, over the last couple of years, I’ve noticed that something has drastically changed. Suddenly...
Where have all the associates gone?
A personal opinion, by Michael Watson. Where I live, on the borders of Essex and Suffolk, has gone from a quiet rural community where dentists just got on with the job of treating their patients to the centre of a movement, Toothless in Suffolk, which aims to go nationwide as Toothless in England. T...
GDPUK asks, Should the BDA step back from Toothless Suffolk?
Throughout 2021, the British Dental Association [BDA] has been at the forefront of moves to tell politicians of the challenges facing dental services across the whole of the UK. It joined with Healthwatch England in calling on the Chancellor to provide vital funding for the recovery and rebuild of s...
Should dental practitioners brace for a surge in professional negligence claims?
David Hallsworth, a solicitor at BLM specialising in healthcare claims, discusses a potential surge in future dental claims as a result of thousands of children missing crucial check-ups during the pandemic.
Public benefits from a GDC Lay Chairperson?
I have seen the soft campaigning in the form of opinion pieces and social media posts by dentists active in various positions in the British Dental Association (BDA) in the weeks and months before the General Dental Council (GDC) announced their new Chair to replace Dr William Moyes who is du...
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Posterior crossbites – orthodontic treatments
This Cochrane review update of the effects of different orthodontic treatments for posterior crossbites included 31 RCTS eight of whihc were at low risk of bias. They found that for children iaged 7 to 11 years old), quad-helix and expansion plates were more beneficial than no treatment for correcting posterior crossbites.
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Tooth crowding in children: Which orthodontic intervention?
This Cochrane review of the effects of orthodontic interventions for preventing or correcting crowded teeth in children included 24 RCTs. A wide range of interventions were assessed typically is small single studies so the available evidence is of very low certainty.
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Chemotherapy for oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer
This review of whether chemotherapy, in addition to radiotherapy and/or surgery for oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancer, results in improved overall survival included 100 studies. the findings indicated some benefit only when used in a few specific circumstances.
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