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No comments No commentsEngland Envious As Wales Waves Farewell To UDA’s
England’s NHS dentists will be casting an envious glance over the border, after the Welsh Government announced that the principality’s practitioners will never be returning to the ‘failed’ UDA system.
Action On DTC Orthodontics - CQC Takes The Lead
The Care Quality Commission has effectively taken the lead in regulating Direct To Consumer Orthodontics, following the General Dental Council’s failure so far, to take any direct action on overseeing the growing industry.
GDC Appeals Against ICO Demand
The General Dental Council has decided to appeal against a demand from the Information Commissioner, to reveal the contents of an email relating to the regulator’s decision to make controversial top-up furlough payments to its staff.
Double-Murderer Dentist: Accomplice Speaks Out From Gaol
The former lover of a Northern Irish dentist who murdered both his wife and his lover’s husband, has spoken out from prison, with claims that the dentist tested ‘knock-out’ gas on her, before he used it in order to abuse women at his Coleraine surgery.
Read more: Double-Murderer Dentist: Accomplice Speaks Out From Gaol
Where Does Dentistry Lie In The New Health Secretary’s In-Tray?
The dental challenges that the newly-appointed Secretary of State for Health faces in his new role have been outlined on the BBC’s television news programme, Politics London by the British Dental Association’s Shawn Charlwood.
Read more: Where Does Dentistry Lie In The New Health Secretary’s In-Tray?
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- Chief Dental Officer Tells LDC’s Of ‘Uncomfortable Truths”
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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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Peri-implantitis: Are locally administered antibiotics effective?
This review of the effectiveness of locally administered antibiotics in the treatment of peri-implantitis included 12 small studies 7 of which were RCTs. While the findings suggest a small additional benefit with antibiotic use however the clinical importance of this is debatable.
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Oral mucositis: Risk factors in paediatric oncology patients
Manas Dave takes a look at this review aiming to identify the potential risk factors associated with the development of oral mucositis in paediatric patients. While a range of risk factos are higlighted it is worth noting that 80-100% of all children having chemotherapy experience some degree of mucositis.
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Alveolar osteitis: Are warm saline mouthwashes effective for prevention?
This review of the effectiveness of warm saltwater mouthwashes in preventing incidence of dry socket following tooth extraction included 8 RCTs. Only one of the included studies was considered to be at low risk of bias with the findings indicting that saltwater was more effective than no moutwash but less effective than chlorhexidine.
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