One Year To Clear Backlogs, And Staff Recruitment Difficulties – FDS Survey Highlights Dentistry’s Current Problems
Nearly forty percent of dental surgeons believe it will take at least 12 months to clear the backlog from COVID-19.
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The phrase ‘Dental Tourism’ will almost invariably invoke terror in the heart of many UK dental clinicians. So what do you do if you’re faced with a dental disaster created abroad?
One Working Days’ Notice - NHS Dentists Need To Implement Big Change
Dentists in Scotland have been given just one working day to implement the delivery of free NHS dental care to 18-25 year-olds.
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NHS Dentists Have Lost 40% In Earnings In 10 Years.
NHS dentists in general practice have effectively endured a 40% cut in earnings over the last decade.
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GDC Registration Report Reveals Significant Drop In Dental Nurse Numbers. Dental Technician Numbers Decimated Since 2019
A new report from the General Dental Council has shown another large drop in the number of dental nurses on the dental register.
NHS Dental Crisis Now Hits Greater Manchester
A new report by Greater Manchester Healthwatch has highlighted that there’s been a ‘huge increase’ in the number of patients struggling to find NHS dentists in the city.
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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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