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Thousands of lives may be saved by this simple and painless test that can be undertaken in the dental chair.
Firstly, an apology to the Chief Dental Officer for England Sara Hurley. In previous news items this writer may have given the impression that she lacked a vison for the future of dentistry. That would be incorrect.
In his fourth and final dip into the oral evidence presented to the Health & Social Care Committee’s Inquiry into NHS Dental Access, GDPUK’s Guy Tuggle reviews the final deliberations of Ian Brack, the Chief Executive and Registrar of the General Dental Council; Dr Abhi Pal, President of the College of General Dentistry; and Malcolm Smith, Chair of HEE’s Advancing Dental Care Review and Dental Education Reform Programme.
Read more: Oral Evidence To Commons Committee Pulls No Punches – Part Four
In his third dip into the oral evidence presented to the Health & Social Care Committee’s Inquiry into NHS Dental Access, GDPUK’s Guy Tuggle reviews two of the more controversial topics proposed by witnesses Ian Brack, the Chief Executive and Registrar of the General Dental Council; Dr Abhi Pal, President of the College of General Dentistry; and Malcolm Smith, Chair of HEE’s Advancing Dental Care Review and Dental Education Reform Programme
The recent BDIA Dental Showcase exhibition and conference at the ExCeL London is one of the big events in the UK dental calendar. The pandemic may have affected how the profession views such gatherings, and there have been comments that this meeting at the ExCeL centre felt smaller and had less trade representation than before.
Neil O’Brien is the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care, who seems to have been given the dental brief. His one man mission to make predecessor Maria Caulfield look a model of honesty and competence, shows no sign of abating.
Read more: Minister Brushes Aside Recruitment Issues - BUPA Action Contradicts
This review of the effectiveness of patient-performed or administered adjunctive measures to non-surgical peri-implantitis therapy included 9 RCTs. A wide range of interventions were tested but the studies were mainly small with only one being at low risk of bias. Consequently addition high quality well conducted studies are needed on both the prevention and treatment of peri-implant disease.
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The Dental Elves are taking a short break . Our next blog will appear on the 29th May.
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This review comparing the effectiveness of different surgical methods for peri-implantitis included 13 parallel group RCTs. However, a wide variety of interventions were tested and the studies were generally small providing very low certainty evidence. Consequently additional high quality well reported studies are needed.
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