The letter from 400 dentists, many of them members of GDPUK, published in the Daily Telegraph and the accompanying article by the paper’s social affairs editor have been taken up elsewhere in the media. It was covered on the BBC news website and articles appeared in the DailyMail and Indpenedent. Most focussed on the claim that dental health standards were falling to ‘Third World’ levels in parts of England.
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The International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) have published in the January issue of the Journal of Dental Research articles that explore new evidence on the biological complications of dental implants and the great challenges associated with predictable implant therapy.
Professor Philip Preshaw was the latest eminent scientist to address the annual BDA/BDJ Winter Lecture series. His lecture in December at the British Dental Association central London headquarters, provided an insight into the links between periodontal disease, diabetes and heart disease. The lecture was filmed and will be made available for free to all BDA members via a webcast in the New Year.
Read more: Preshaw stresses links of diabetes to perio disease at BDA
The New Year Honours list was published on December 31. Four dentists are to be honoured by HM The Queen.
Margie Taylor, Chief Dental Officer for Scotland, is appointed CBE.
Jane Davies-Slowik Associate Dental Dean, Health Education England, West Midlands and Special Care Dentist, Wolverhampton NHS is appointed MBE.
Eric Rooney Consultant in Dental Public Health, Public Health England and recently appointed Deputy Chief Dental Officer England is also appointed MBE.
Ashley Lupin from Canterbury Kent has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for humanitarian services to Medical Training in Uganda.
A dentist from north-west London has been jailed for claiming payments totalling £780,000 for work which was never carried out. Jayantilal Bhikhabhai Mistry, 67, from Willesden, was sentenced to three years and ordered to pay £50,000 in costs for fraud and false accounting. Mistry admitted the fraud and paid back the money in full.
The dental regulators have said that the system they oversee is placing huge burdens on the profession. Dr Janet Williamson from the Regulation of the Dental Services Programme Board, has said that the bodies need to "think differently" to deliver for patients. Their report, on the future of dental service regulation, outlines steps to rationalise dental regulation, including needed action on data sharing, complaint management, quality improvement and communications.
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