“Dentistry is a hugely important service” says the new Chief Executive Officer of NHS England.
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If you anticipated that the newly updated Standard Operating Procedure guidance would bring joy and excitement at the prospect of an end to the shackles of fallow times, you were probably, like many, seriously underwhelmed.
Read more: Not-Quite-Routine – A Roundup Of Unusual Dental Stories
The General Dental Council is facing further calls for transparency, following its latest response to a Freedom of Information request regarding the regulator’s use of private investigators.
Read more: Transparency: GDC Shields Behind Freedom Of Information Act Again
Tributes have poured in for Dame Margaret Seward, who has died at the age of 85.
Dental health professionals may find that they won’t have to succumb to the effects of the ‘pingdemic’ currently wreaking havoc in the general UK economy.
Read more: Dental Professionals May Be Immune To The ‘Pingdemic’
Dental Protection’s Dental Director Raj Rattan is to fight a case in the High Court “As a matter of principle given the potential repercussions for the dental profession,” after the Court decided that as a practice owner, he was liable for treatment carried out by associate dentists at his former practice.
Read more: Raj Rattan In Personal Battle Over Vicarious Liability
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This Cochrane review update was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of index tests for the detection of oral cancer and oral potentially malignant disorders, in people presenting with clinically evident suspicious and innocuous lesions.
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This Cochrane review of interventions to treat carious lesions conventionally considered to require restorations in primary or permanent teeth with vital pulps included 27 RCTs. Compared with conventional treatment there were lower numbers of failures with the Hall technique and selective excavation (SE) in primary teeth and with SE and stepwise removal in permanent teeth.
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This Cochrane review of the effectiveness of lasers in the treatment of dentine hypersensitivity included 23 RCTs. The findings suggest that lasers may reduce pain intensity at short, medium, or long term when compared to placebo/no treatment. However the evidence is limited and of low to very low certainty.
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