Cabinet Reshuffle – Will It Delay Contract Reform?
It was nearly all-change at the Department of Health following the Prime Minister’s recent Cabinet reshuffle.
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Yesterday saw the launch of a new campaign aimed at championing the benefits of safe dentistry.
BDA Calls For Clarity From Health Secretary
The British Dental Association has written to the Health Secretary Sajid Javid following the Prime Minister’s statement in the House of Commons that “We want the NHS to be a better place for the dental profession."
Male Dental Students Overestimate Their Skills
An interesting new study has found that male dental students overestimate their performance more significantly than females.
Dental Morale Is ‘Terrible’ In NHS
A city dentist has spoken out as the Manchester Evening News reported “Thousands of Mancunians still struggling to find NHS dentists amid huge backlogs.”
BDA Stops “Indefensible” Health Board Action
The British Dental Association has helped to stop Local Health Boards in Wales from financially penalising practices who had not hit targets.
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Where have all the associates gone?
A personal opinion, by Michael Watson. Where I live, on the borders of Essex and Suffolk, has gone from a quiet rural community where dentists just got on with the job of treating their patients to the centre of a movement, Toothless in Suffolk, which aims to go nationwide as Toothless in England. T...
GDPUK asks, Should the BDA step back from Toothless Suffolk?
Throughout 2021, the British Dental Association [BDA] has been at the forefront of moves to tell politicians of the challenges facing dental services across the whole of the UK. It joined with Healthwatch England in calling on the Chancellor to provide vital funding for the recovery and rebuild of s...
Should dental practitioners brace for a surge in professional negligence claims?
David Hallsworth, a solicitor at BLM specialising in healthcare claims, discusses a potential surge in future dental claims as a result of thousands of children missing crucial check-ups during the pandemic.
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...
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Bioactive toothpastes for dentine hypersensitivity
This review of the effectiveness of toothpastes containing bioactive glass,applied either at-home or in-office for the treatment of dentine hypersensitivity included 15 studies. The included studies showed marked variation in the length of follow up, and the concentration of the bioactive material so meta-analyses was not possible.
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Endodontic diagnosis – conventional radiography versus cone beam computed tomography
Mark-Steven Howe looks at this is diagnostic test accuracy review comparing conventional and cone-beam computed tomography for detecting persistent apical disease after root canal treatment.
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Does toothbrushing with chlorhexidine reduce risk?
This review of the effect of toothbrushing and chlorhexidine on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in patients on mechanical ventilation included 7 RCTs. The findings showed that toothbrushing and chlorhexidine reduced VAP,length of stay and duration of ventilation. However the findings should be interpreted cautiously because of study quality.
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