Suspended: Dentist Who Breached COVID Rules
A dentist who treated patients immediately after his return from Greece without self-isolating, has had an 18-month Interim Suspension imposed on him by the General Dental Council.
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A case brought by a claimant who was represented by the Dental Law Partnership, has been successfully defended by the Dental Defence Union.
Autism And Learning Difficulties – Dental Guidance Given
The Chief Dental Officer of England has issued guidance on helping people with autism and learning difficulties with their oral health.
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Gum Health Less Important Than Tooth Whitening - Google Searches
Although it’s a major concern for dental professionals, gum health may not be at the forefront of the public’s consciousness when they are looking for dental answers on the internet.
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Study Shows AGP’s Don’t Increase Risk Of Contracting COVID-19
A new study by Ohio State University has given hope that dentistry may soon return to normal.
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Court Case Does Not Affect Associate Tax Status
Confusion over the employment status of dental associates arising from a much-publicised County Court case, has been clarified by NASDAL.
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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...
Don’t Be A Rat – Have A Quiet Word
Two years ago, a bit like anything the General Dental Council does lately, our oil-fuelled central heating boiler was condemned. It was old and tired, was wasting money and was basically unsafe – yes, am still talking about the boiler, but, you know, there are parallels there.
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Oral cancer – adjunctive diagnostic tests
This Cochrane review update was to estimate the diagnostic accuracy of index tests for the detection of oral cancer and oral potentially malignant disorders, in people presenting with clinically evident suspicious and innocuous lesions.
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Treatments for cavitated or dentine carious lesions
This Cochrane review of interventions to treat carious lesions conventionally considered to require restorations in primary or permanent teeth with vital pulps included 27 RCTs. Compared with conventional treatment there were lower numbers of failures with the Hall technique and selective excavation (SE) in primary teeth and with SE and stepwise removal in permanent teeth.
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Lasers for treatment of dentine hypersensitivity?
This Cochrane review of the effectiveness of lasers in the treatment of dentine hypersensitivity included 23 RCTs. The findings suggest that lasers may reduce pain intensity at short, medium, or long term when compared to placebo/no treatment. However the evidence is limited and of low to very low certainty.
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