FTP Annual Report from GDC: Risks Vary For All
The newly published GDC Fitness to Practice report 2021, makes alarming reading, particularly for ethnic minority registrants.
No comments No commentsNorfolk Practice Closes Suddenly With Debts of £1M
A long established dental practice in Norfolk has closed its doors at short notice.In an area where NHS access was already poor the news of the closure reported in the Eastern Daily Press, has caused considerable concern.
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Deaths From Oral Disease Overtake Car Accidents Toll
No sooner had the ink dried on research carried out by the BBC in conjunction with the BDA, which confirmed what many in the profession suspected – that 90% of NHS dental practices are closed to new patients - than new research by GB News has revealed one of the predictable consequences.
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Reforms To Facilitate Overseas Dentist Employment To Be Pushed Through Parliament This Week
The Guardian has reported that Government ministers will introduce legislation to make it easier for dentists to work in the UK, as soon as parliamentary business resumes after the summer break, on Monday.
Revealed: Additional £50m Failed To Score
The latest ‘NHS Dentistry and Oral Health Update’, which dropped into subscribers’ inboxes on Wednesday 31st August, revealed the response to a FOI request seeking answers to the effectiveness of the much trumpeted ‘additional £50M funding’ that was announced in January to entice practices to add additional sessions or open up for additional hours in the evenings and at weekends to confront urgent care backlogs.
"More Bang For Our Buck" Promises Sunak
Tory leadership hopeful and, if successful, PM in waiting Rishi Sunak has promised immediate action to tackle the dental profession’s deep-seated problems.
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Dental recalls – a prickly subject
Porcupines – literally ‘spiny pigs’ - have a gestation period of about six months, which is completely irrelevant to dentistry but a useful introduction to the subject of recall intervals for dental patients.
NHS Contract changes. What they said and what they meant*
Your NHS dentistry and oral health update 19 July 2022 (Issue 50) An update from Sara Hurley and Ali Sparke
Sex, Gender and Orthodontics
You don’t have to hang around on Twitter for very long these days to discover that there are some subjects you cannot raise without receiving a barrage of opinion and sometimes abuse from both sides of the argument. Accusations of being a (insert subject here)phobe are rife.
Dentist Self-Employed Status; To Be or Not To Be?
On 16th June 2022 the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) handed down its decision in a case concerning a dentist claiming worker status. This is another in a long line of cases where dental associates have claimed that they are not ‘self-employed’, but instead have worker status. There has unde...
Vaping – No Smoke Without Fire
No doubt we have all followed a car down a road, with billows of smoke emitting from an open window, and wondering whether said vehicle was on fire. Similarly, who hasn’t been walking down a pavement and been nasally insulted by puffs of bubblegum or apple pie and custard from an enthusiastic vaper?...
Material facts
Back in the past, I used to hate dental materials lectures. It all seemed so irrelevant. I just wanted to know the material worked. I couldn’t get excited about the chemistry. Oh, I remember the important stuff.
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Apical Periodontitis – Is treatment with modern root canal instrumentation more effective?
In this blog Thibault Colloc looks at a review of comparing the effectiveness of contemporary root canal instrumentation compared with conventional stainless-steel instruments in terms of clinical and patient-related outcomes. The review includes 9 studies (6 RCTs and 3 retrospective clinical studies) and was one of a series designed to inform guidelines for the European Society of Endodontics.
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Caries prevention in older adults
This review of the effectiveness of professionally applied fluoride therapy in preventing and arresting dental caries in older adults aged 60 years or above included 7 studies. The findings suggest that 5% NaF varnish, 38% SDF solution, and 1.23% APF gel were effective in preventing root caries but the studies were varied in treatment protocols, intervention method and follow-up period so more research in needed.
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How common is root canal treatment?
This review of prevalence of root filled teeth in the adult population worldwide included 76 observational studies. The findings suggest that 8.2% (95%CI; 7.3% to 9.1%) of teeth has been root filled and that 55.7% (95%CI; 49.6% to 61.8%) of people had at least one tooth root filled.
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