Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s proposals to remove the barriers to water fluoridation schemes in the UK may gain traction soon, following the appointment of a new Dental Public Health lead and a new head of the British Fluoridation Society.
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Good oral hygiene and gum health may be the key to saving patients from developing severe COVID-19 illness.
Read more: Good Oral Hygiene May Be Protective Against Severe COVID-19
The cost to the General Dental Council of acting unlawfully, during an ‘under-guise’ investigation into a registrant has now been revealed following persistent requests for the figures by GDPUK.
While the Secretary of State for Health was reminding the Commons that “this virus is diminished, but not defeated,” Members of Parliament were reminding Matt Hancock that the problems encountered by those who provide dental healthcare are also still not defeated.
Read more: Government Evasive On Reducing ‘Colossal Backlog’
Patients are turning to Twitter and Facebook in the search for antibiotics to cure toothache.
An international study of antibiotic prescribing in dentistry has ignited calls for closer prescription monitoring and better renumeration for NHS emergency treatments.
Read more: Antibiotic Use In Dentistry – More Monitoring Needed
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This review of the efficacy of antimicrobials adjunctive to scaling and root planing (SRP) in the treatment of chronic periodontitis. 21 RCTs were included with the findings showing that amoxicillin and metronidazole had the largest statistical benefit. Whether this benefit is a clinically important benefit is a wider question.
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This review of the prevalence of orofacial trauma in wheeled non-motor sports athletes included 5 cross-sectional studies involving 132,132 participants. Analyses showed the overall prevalence of orofacial trauma = 21.7% (95%CI; 8.7 to 34.7%) however the evidence was of very low certainty.
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This review of the accuracy of different methods for detecting carious lesions in primary and permanent teeth compares visual inspection, radiographs and fluorescence-based detection. 240 studies were included and the findings suggest that visual inspection was adequate for most patients.
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