Complaints have poured in from NHS patients in Shetland after NHS Shetland warned that it may have to consider charging patients for missed appointments.
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As the dental profession basks in ‘90% of NHS practices are closed to new patients’ headline coverage broken by BBC News and conjugated throughout the media recently, the Shawn Charlwood, Chair of the BDA’s General Dental Practice Committee has issued an apocalyptic warning: “NHS dentistry is at a tipping point. If we’re not there already, we’re reaching the point of no return”.
Read more: "Have We Reached The Point Of No Return?" Charlwood Throws Down the Gauntlet
The General Dental Council has published its registration and fitness to practise report for 2021.
For the second time in 15 months, the General Dental Council is under the threat of action in the High Court if it doesn’t comply with a Freedom of Information Request.
The nature of indemnifiers work could be expected to temper their willingness to criticise the GDC. Despite this, John Makin, head of the Dental Defence Union (DDU), has had a letter published in The Guardian going public with some of the damage being done as a result of the regulators continued failings.
Read more: Indemnifier Calls Out GDC For Human Cost Of Its Failures
War in the Ukraine. The biggest rise in Bank Rate for 27 years. Festering conditions at ports and airports with the rail network grinding to a halt as unions strike for cost of living pay rises. Over six million people waiting for hospital treatment…
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Thibault Colloc takes a look at this review of vital pulp therapies in mature and immature permanent teeth with nontraumatic pulpitis. Only 3 RCTs reported in 4 papers involving a total of 330 patients were included. Further high quality well reported studies are needed to clarify the evidence for vital pulp therapies.
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This Cochrane review of the effects of psychological therapies in people (aged 12 years and over) with painful temporomandibular disorders (TMD)lasting 3 months or longer included 22 RCTs. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) was the most frequently studied but overall there was insufficient evidence on which to base a reliable judgement about the efficacy of psychological therapies for painful TMD
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This review of current management strategies for adult patients with dental anxiety in the dental clinic included 54 studies. Most of the psychotherapeutic behavioural strategies provided some benefits but there was limited supporting evidence for some approaches. Pharmocological approaches were not included.
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