A French dentist has been jailed after being found guilty of carrying out unnecessary work. Sentencing followed a trial that ended in April, relating to huge quantities of work done over a six year period.
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Following the British Dental Association’s revelation that 79% of dental practices in England were unable to take on new child patients, the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry has announced the availability of nine multilingual versions of its guide to caring for children’s teeth.
There has already been a good deal of discussion on the GDPUK forum about how to manage the Bank Holiday that was announced for the Queens State Funeral on September 19th. Within individual practices there will, by now, have been conversations about how to respond, and some will have already made their decision whether to close, or remain open.
Read more: To Close, Or Not To close? Primary Care Receives Guidance
GDPUK’s Guy Tuggle profiles the new Health Secretary.
Read more: Government Saved £46m After Nearly One Million Mums-To-Be Missed Out On Free Dental Care
Dental Protection is urging the General Dental Council to ensure that the impact of Fitness to Practise investigations on the wellbeing of registrants is reduced.
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Gurvinder
Great work with this site. Great source of invaluable help.
Audeon Healy
"And congratulation to Tony Jacobs and GDPUK for providing the forum which is evidently producing the best minds and speakers in our profession today."
Barry Rosenbloom
That is the beauty of this [GDPUK] forum as many of us practice in isolation often not talking and discussing matters with colleagues.
In this blog Thibault Colloc looks at a review of comparing the effectiveness of contemporary root canal instrumentation compared with conventional stainless-steel instruments in terms of clinical and patient-related outcomes. The review includes 9 studies (6 RCTs and 3 retrospective clinical studies) and was one of a series designed to inform guidelines for the European Society of Endodontics.
The post Apical Periodontitis – Is treatment with modern root canal instrumentation more effective? appeared first on National Elf Service.
This review of the effectiveness of professionally applied fluoride therapy in preventing and arresting dental caries in older adults aged 60 years or above included 7 studies. The findings suggest that 5% NaF varnish, 38% SDF solution, and 1.23% APF gel were effective in preventing root caries but the studies were varied in treatment protocols, intervention method and follow-up period so more research in needed.
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This review of prevalence of root filled teeth in the adult population worldwide included 76 observational studies. The findings suggest that 8.2% (95%CI; 7.3% to 9.1%) of teeth has been root filled and that 55.7% (95%CI; 49.6% to 61.8%) of people had at least one tooth root filled.
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