Move To Core Service Aided By Covid Wind Down?
Practice inboxes have filled up with a variety of official emails recently. Dental teams have become used to multiple announcements, from leaders such as the CDO and national NHS management.
2 comments 2 commentsFitness To Practise Suicides – GDC Denies FOI Request
The General Dental Council has turned down a Freedom of Information request asking for the number of registrants who have taken their own lives while under Fitness to Practise investigations.
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BDA’s Shawn Charlwood Lays It On The Line To Commons
BDA General Dental Practice Committee Chair Shawn Charlwood, told MPs at the Health and Social Care inquiry into Recruitment and Retention Across Healthcare the stark realties facing NHS dentistry when he and colleagues, including Eddie Crouch, met them this week.
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Monkeypox and dentistry
The daily reports on Monkeypox show a steady increase in case numbers both in the UK and worldwide. Will this affect UK dentistry? Must colleagues be on the lookout?
Some Failed ORE Dentists Are Already Registered With The GDC
GDPUK can reveal that 46% of the candidates who failed the Overseas Registration Examination in January 2022 are already registered with the General Dental Council.
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BDA Figures Lay Bare The Scale Of The NHS Crisis
‘They want dentistry out of the NHS’ warns Eddie Crouch.
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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.
Just Drifting
Walking to dental school one day, I met one of our professors, carrying a cage. A conversation ensued. ‘May I ask what is in the cage, Professor?’ ‘You may, Mr. Hellyer – it’s a monkey of the species Macaca Irus.’ ‘Really?’.
Eyes Wide Shut
There can be very few dentists who turn patients away because the challenge is too big. Even if they can’t complete treatment themselves, they’ll at least point the patient in the right direction.
The GDC, winning hearts and minds their own way.
Amongst the many salaries that your GDC registration fee helps to fund is that of Daniel Knight. He has the title of Stakeholder Engagement Manager, where he leads on student and new registrant engagement.
COVID-19 – when the rubber hits the tooth
I have a friend who is a proper scientist. You know the type, PhD after their name, and understands all the stats stuff like Cronbach’s alpha, Spearman’s r and the Wilcoxon Rank Sum test. Their area of research was water quality and they spent 3 years gathering data from the outfall from sewage work...
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Full-mouth scaling or full-mouth disinfection (within 24 hours) for treatment of periodontitis
This Cochrane review update comparing full-mouth scaling/disinfection (FMS/D) to conventional quadrant scaling for periodontitis for the treatment of periodontitis included 20 RCTs. However there is still no clear evidence that FMS/D approaches provide additional clinical benefit compared to conventional treatment.
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Sagittal split osteotomy – Do third molars increase the risk of complications?
This review investigating whether the presence of third molars during sagittal split osteotomy of the mandible increases the risk of complications included 15 studies. The findings suggests no statistically significant relationship between the presence of 3Ms and complications. However a majority of the studies were retrospective with 13 studies being considered to be at high risk of bias so the certainty of the evidence is considered to be very low.
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Iron deficiency anaemia and early childhood caries
This review assessing a potential association between early childhood caries (ECC) and iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) included 14 studies. While the findings showed an association between ECC and IDA the certainty of the evidence was very low so the findings should be interpreted very cautiously,
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