Caries Vaccine On The Horizon
The worldwide search for vaccines effective against the COVID-19 coronavirus has produced some real hope in the search for a caries vaccine.
No comments No commentsGDC Entrapment “An Egregious Act”
The British Association of Private Dentistry has criticised the General Dental Council for acting unlawfully when it used private investigators to entrap a clinical dental technician into acting outside his scope of practice.
NHS England Widely Criticised For Targets
The late announcement of the new NHS contract targets for the next six months has been met with widespread condemnation from members of the profession.
Zoom Boom For Cosmetic Dentistry
COVID and Zoom have caused demand for cosmetic dentistry to fly “Off the Richter Scale
NHS Targets Announced For Next Six Months
NHS England has finally told NHS dental practices the targets they will face from April 1st, ending weeks of financial uncertainty.
Government ‘Vision’ For A Child’s Early Development Omits Dentistry
The omission of oral health from a 146-page Government review of child health development, has been condemned by the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry.
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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.
Backup - Protecting all of your data
Backup is without doubt the most important element of your IT Infrastructure, without a robust backup process in place in your practice your patient data is at risk, and if you lose your patient data, your whole practice is at risk – 60% of businesses that lose their data close within 6 months
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Clarithromycin as an adjunct to non-surgical periodontal treatment
This review of systemic or locally delivered clarithromycin as an adjunct to non-surgical periodontal therapy included 7 small RCTs, 4 RCTS related to systemic use and 3RCTS for local application. The findings provide moderate certainty evidence suggesting locally delivered clarithromycin significantly improves treatment outcome
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Ten Years of the Dental Elf
It is now 10 years since the very first Dental Elf Blog. Since then we have published 1626 blogs covering a wide range of topics so we present a brief overview of the categories covered.
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Plaque disclosing methods: Do they lead to improvements in oral health?
This review of whether plaque-disclosing (PD) methods, applied by dental professionals or at-home with verbal oral hygiene instruction (OHI)improved plaque control compared with OHI alone included 7 RCTs involving 430 patients.
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