NHS Dentists Leaving GDS – The Reality
A dentist in Greater Manchester has spoken of his ‘heavy heart’ as he made the reluctant decision to leave the NHS.
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The implementation of the new requirement for all NHS clinical dental records to be stored using SNOMED CT, has been met with universal confusion and frustration by practitioners.
BSPD Welcomes New NICE Guidance
The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry has welcomed new guidance from NICE, on the treatment of youngsters in healthcare settings.
Study Concludes Regular Dentistry And Good Hygiene May Help Prevent Cardiovascular Disease
Regular dental examinations and oral hygiene education may help to prevent first and subsequent heart attacks, a recent study has concluded.
NHS Digital’s Report ‘Underlines The Collapse In NHS Access’
The release of the latest NHS Dental Statistics has shown that the number of course of treatment carried out in the General Dental Service in 2020-21, was down by 69% compared to the previous year.
Read more: NHS Digital’s Report ‘Underlines The Collapse In NHS Access’
One Year To Clear Backlogs, And Staff Recruitment Difficulties – FDS Survey Highlights Dentistry’s Current Problems
Nearly forty percent of dental surgeons believe it will take at least 12 months to clear the backlog from COVID-19.
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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...
Bring Back The RDO, Buzz Aldrin
Since I retired a couple of years-or-so ago, I’ve had many dentistry-related dreams/nightmares. Many of these dreams find me suddenly planted back in a surgery somewhere, working on difficult patients with tricky clinical needs.
What Model Works?
Once upon a time, as all the stories, good, and bad, start, a dental surgeon would have a chair of some sort in his (almost always his) south facing sitting room and ply his trade. George Bernard Shaw in the 1897 play “You never can tell” describes such a set up in the home of Dr Valentine, a...
Come On GDC - Be A Hero!
It seems odd at my age, writing the words ‘Dental Hero,’ but Simon was one of them, even though he was only a handful of years older than me. Simon was my first ever dental boss, and he ran two practices, one in the Cotswolds and a newly acquired practice in a large Worcestershire town.
How I Started To Learn To Love Humans Again
These days, if I get any phone call on my mobile from a number I don’t recognise, I reflexly activate the speakerphone and start the voice recorder up on my watch.I used to get quite tense and angry when I received these calls. At my own practice a few years ago, we fell victim to a scam operated by...
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Peri-implantitis: Are locally administered antibiotics effective?
This review of the effectiveness of locally administered antibiotics in the treatment of peri-implantitis included 12 small studies 7 of which were RCTs. While the findings suggest a small additional benefit with antibiotic use however the clinical importance of this is debatable.
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Oral mucositis: Risk factors in paediatric oncology patients
Manas Dave takes a look at this review aiming to identify the potential risk factors associated with the development of oral mucositis in paediatric patients. While a range of risk factos are higlighted it is worth noting that 80-100% of all children having chemotherapy experience some degree of mucositis.
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Alveolar osteitis: Are warm saline mouthwashes effective for prevention?
This review of the effectiveness of warm saltwater mouthwashes in preventing incidence of dry socket following tooth extraction included 8 RCTs. Only one of the included studies was considered to be at low risk of bias with the findings indicting that saltwater was more effective than no moutwash but less effective than chlorhexidine.
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