A dentist's receptionist brought a patient back from the ‘dead’ when she rushed to his aid after he had a heart attack in the waiting room. Charlotte Anderson-Hughes and dentist Chandra Metha used a defibrillator on patient Simon Walker, 53, from Hyde, Cheshire after he collapsed in the waiting room of the practice in Mossley.
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‘Smile in pink for Bridge2Aid’ will take place on Friday June 6th in partnership with the British Dental Health Foundation and National Smile Month, and they are asking practices and organisations to do just that – wear pink for one day to raise awareness of international oral health and Bridge2Aid work in developing nations. It really is that simple!
A dental nurse accused of poisoning her boss with mercury has walked free from court. Ravinder Kaur's case was dropped by the CPS when two separate juries failed to reach verdicts. She was said to have laced practice manager Laura Knowles’ coffee with the toxic metal after being handed her final written warning three days previously.
The Royal Bank of Scotland has been cleared of deliberately putting small and medium enterprise customers in financial distress or out of business for its own profit in a recent report. Law firm Clifford Chance said it had found “no evidence” of wrong-doing by RBS and had found nothing to suggest small business customers had failed because of actions taken by the lender.
Dental audits need not be a box-ticking exercise, says UK-wide dental defence organisation MDDUS. Dental adviser Claire Renton reminds dentists that audits offer a genuine opportunity to improve the efficient running of a practice and ease the strain on busy workloads. MDDUS has highlighted five key steps of an audit that can improve the way dentists carry out their day-to-day tasks.
Speaking recently to an audience at the BDA Conference, PEC Chair Dr Mick Armstrong said that dentistry was under attack from Governments, regulators and the fearfulness of politicians. He argued that the dental profession is facing a burgeoning challenge in which a double standard between the professionalism expected of it, and the lack of professionalism with which it is too-often treated, is emerging.