Dental Morale Is ‘Terrible’ In NHS
A city dentist has spoken out as the Manchester Evening News reported “Thousands of Mancunians still struggling to find NHS dentists amid huge backlogs.”
1 comments 1 commentsBDA Stops “Indefensible” Health Board Action
The British Dental Association has helped to stop Local Health Boards in Wales from financially penalising practices who had not hit targets.
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Dentists register as dental nurses…
Forty-nine dentists who qualified overseas have registered with the General Dental Council as dental nurses, since 2017.
Self-Employed Status Of Associates – Tests Advised By NASDAL
The tax status of dental associates “Should be considered on a case-by-case basis” after April 2023, according to the National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers.
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Records Have Been Deleted – GDC’s Response To FOI Internal Review Request
The ‘transparency’ of the General Dental Council has once again been called into question after the regulator revealed the results of an internal review into its response to a Freedom of Information Request.
Read more: Records Have Been Deleted – GDC’s Response To FOI Internal Review Request
Report Identifies ‘Variations’ In Dental Education Standards Across EU
A new report led by the University of Plymouth has identified variations in dental education standards across the European Union.
Read more: Report Identifies ‘Variations’ In Dental Education Standards Across EU
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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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Which retrograde root filling material?
This Cochrane review update of different materials used for retrograde root filling in children and adults requiring retrograde filling included 8 RCTs. However the studies are all at high risk of bias so provide insufficient evidence for the benefits of any one material.
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Autumn Break
The Dental Elves are taking a short break and will be back on the 18th October.
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Periodontitis: Locally delivered anti-microbials as an adjunct to surgical periodontal treatment
This review of the effectiveness of locally delivered adjunctive antibiotic treatment during periodontal surgery on clinical outcomes included 9 RCTs. While the findings suggested that adjunctive locally delivered antibiotics could improve some clinical sutcomes they evidence was limited and of very low certainty.
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