In a ‘you couldn’t make it up’ story, NHS spokespeople pulled out, at the last minute, from attending a specially convened meeting of Derby City Council’s Adult and Health Scrutiny Review Board which had been convened to discuss city councillor’s grave concerns surrounding access to NHS dental services.
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The announcement earlier this year of £50M to fund thousands upon thousands of urgent dental care appointments provided ministers and apologists with a perfect retort to fend off MPs and the public’s legitimate concerns about access to NHS dental services. How many patients it actually helped is rather more obscure.
An article written by a respected dentist and academic has received widespread social media plaudits for the way it encapsulates the feelings of many UK practitioners regarding dental litigation and the General Dental Council.
Read more: The GDC and NHS UDAs Crushed Compassion – The Brutal Truth
There is no respite in the bad news stories about NHS access but a clear pattern has now emerged. There is a sad predictability to both the stories of the dentally disenfranchised, and the responses from those nominally responsible for providing their care.
Read more: Welcome to the New Normal - the NHS access crisis
New Government proposals to limit the legal costs that lawyers can recover for clinical negligence claims have been welcomed by Dental Protection.
Read more: New Proposals To Curb Negligence Claims Don’t Go Far Enough Says Dental Protection
It was headlined bluntly in Hansard as, “NHS Dentistry Backlog,” being part of the latest Health and Social Care debate in the House of Commons, but did not see the government bring out its big hitters.
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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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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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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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