The Health and Social Care Committee has announced an inquiry into dentistry.
The cross-party Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department of Health and Social Care.
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Fallow time. Face masks for all. Patients locked out, queuing in the cold. Interminable screening questions. Donning and Doffing (with allocated zones and ‘how to’ posters on the wall). FFP3. Telephone triaging. Aerosol procedures…
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Unusually, but in common with some organisations including the British Medical Association, the BDA is both a company and a trade union.
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On 18th November 2022 the World Health Organisation (WHO) published its first Global Oral Health Status Report for twenty years. The key takeaways make for disturbing reading.
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Weary registrants may not have had time to read all of the recent “Latest Updates from the GDC” email, that landed in their in-boxes recently. There is a lot of content, including a report on a meeting of “a new Dental Leadership Network.”
Read more: When is the GDC not the GDC? When it calls itself the Dental Leadership Network
The vexed question of the status of associates has returned to the spotlight as the British Dental Association (BDA) has unveiled new associate agreements that acknowledge the existence of three tiers of employment status operating in the UK.
Read more: Associate Agreements: Does Yours Need An Urgent Check-Up?
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This review estimating the nocebo response in dentistry from trials of analgesic treatment following third molar surgery included data from 50 RCTs. Adverse events (AEs) were roughly the same in placebo and active arms suggesting AEs may be attributed to the nocebo phenomenon.
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This review and network meta-analysis (NMA) of pharmacological treatments for the management of pain subsequent to simple and surgical tooth extraction included 85 RCTs. There was moderate- and high-certainty evidence that for surgical dental extractions that ibuprofen 200 to 400 mg plus acetaminophen 500 to 1,000 mg was the most effective for pain relief.
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This review of patient-performed or administered measures used adjunctively to submarginal instrumentation for the management of peri-implant mucositis included 14 studies. The findings indicated that adjunctive measures reduced probing depth, bleeding on probing and plaque level reductions at 3 months and were in favour of adjunctive measures, which were plaque.
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