NASDAL Survey – Dental Goodwill Value Drops
The National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers has published its latest survey results on goodwill statistics.
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s much publicised shunning of Coca Cola at the UEFA Euro 2020 football tournament couldn’t have come at a better time for the UK Government’s strategy to reduce sugar intake.
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BDA’s ‘Freedom Day’ Plea To Sajid Javid
The British Dental Association has written to the new Secretary of State for Health asking for his commitment to developing “A clear roadmap to recovery.”
As Evidence Mounts, Is NOW The Time To Relax COVID Dental Restrictions?
The results of a new UK-based study should bolster the argument for an urgent relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions in dentistry.
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Quirky Dental News From The Rest Of The Planet
Believe it or not, dentistry isn’t all mundane performance targets and crinkly PPE.
England Envious As Wales Waves Farewell To UDA’s
England’s NHS dentists will be casting an envious glance over the border, after the Welsh Government announced that the principality’s practitioners will never be returning to the ‘failed’ UDA system.
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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...
Don’t Be A Rat – Have A Quiet Word
Two years ago, a bit like anything the General Dental Council does lately, our oil-fuelled central heating boiler was condemned. It was old and tired, was wasting money and was basically unsafe – yes, am still talking about the boiler, but, you know, there are parallels there.
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Oral cancer – adjunctive diagnostic tests
This Cochrane review update was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of index tests for the detection of oral cancer and oral potentially malignant disorders, in people presenting with clinically evident suspicious and innocuous lesions.
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Treatments for cavitated or dentine carious lesions
This Cochrane review of interventions to treat carious lesions conventionally considered to require restorations in primary or permanent teeth with vital pulps included 27 RCTs. Compared with conventional treatment there were lower numbers of failures with the Hall technique and selective excavation (SE) in primary teeth and with SE and stepwise removal in permanent teeth.
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Lasers for treatment of dentine hypersensitivity?
This Cochrane review of the effectiveness of lasers in the treatment of dentine hypersensitivity included 23 RCTs. The findings suggest that lasers may reduce pain intensity at short, medium, or long term when compared to placebo/no treatment. However the evidence is limited and of low to very low certainty.
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