The Manchester Evening News has reported that police have launched an investigation after a ’premeditated arson attack’ on a pair of dental labs in Farnworth, Greater Manchester. They have discovered CCTV footage of two men, who they believe to have started the blaze, entering the rear of the building and there was a large explosion soon after.

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Nearly all of the consumers involved in a class-action lawsuit accusing SmileDirectClub of false advertising and violation of US federal law have dropped out of the case. Twenty-one plaintiffs filed a motion voluntarily dismissing their case against the Nashville-based company. Of the two remaining plaintiffs, one remains in court while the other has been sent to arbitration.

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A whole systems approach is needed to tackling childhood tooth decay, according to a new report by the Local Government Association. It contains a whole range of examples of the steps that need to be taken to achieve success. Many of the areas included are places where there have traditionally been high rates of tooth decay, but where significant improvements are now being made.

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The letter, drafted by Tony Kilcoyne and headlined ‘A lack of funding and an increase in bureaucracy have left NHS dentistry in a rotten state’, was published in the Daily Telegraph on January 2. It had been ‘signed’ by 1,003 dentists including, it would appear, the chair of the General Dental Practice Committee, Dave Cottam.

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The College of General Dentistry is offering FGDP(UK) Members the opportunity to be identified as Founders and Founding Contributors. It is seeking contributions to ensure its future success in serving primary care dental teams across the UK and to support its ambition to create the organisation to which, in the words of its Chair, Professor Nairn Wilson, “our profession has aspired for over a hundred years”.

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