Smile Direct Faces Challenges

The rise of Smile Direct Club (SDC) has seemed unstoppable. As a dental disruptor their direct to consumer approach made them very successful with the public.

The rise of Smile Direct Club (SDC) has seemed unstoppable. As a dental disruptor their direct to consumer approach made them very successful with the public.
The General Dental Council has once again avoided answering questions posed in a Freedom of Information request
The General Dental Council has made the extraordinary claim that it doesn’t hold information on an investigation it is currently carrying out, into the relationship between registrants undergoing Fitness to Practise investigations and potential suicides.
Read more: GDC Says It Doesn’t Hold Information On The Nature Of Its Own Investigations
The British Orthodontic Society attracted its largest number of participants yet to the annual British Orthodontic Conference (BOC), at Birmingham’s International Conference Centre.
Dental professionals listening to the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s eagerly promised Statement on how she plans to tackle the mounting failings of the NHS were left feeling bitterly disappointed.
Recently profiled in GDPUK, the newly appointed Minister for Health and Social Care, Therese Coffey had a ready mnemonic for her first interviews. Her priorities would be ABCD, she said, representing Ambulances, Backlogs, Care, Doctors and Dentists.
Stephen Bazlinton
GDPUK is a life saver in this jungle of bureacratic confusion that haunts the daily round.
Ed Byrne
"Changes in the NHS, commercial pressures and the challenges of regulation have definitely made it more difficult to sit back and enjoy your dentistry.However, I firmly believe that GDPUK provides a wonderful family where practitioners can communicate, obtain support and advice. Practitioners need no longer be isolated. Help and advice is just a posting away."
Anon
I`ve just had a `phone call from a company conducting a survey on behalf of the BDA. The survey was particularly interested in my use of the internet and what way I get my "dentistry intelligence" (new ideas, training ideas etc). When asked about the "most important source of dental information" I gave GDPUK as my answer; to be honest, I didn`t expect the response from the lady that I got: "Oh I hear that so much".
In this blog Rebecca Manson considers a systematic review assessing whether the use of animal-assisted therapy helps reduce anxiety during dental care in children and adolescents.
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This review of the effectiveness of sodium bicarbonate in the prevention and management of oral mucositis included 11 RCTs. The included studies were small, hetrogeneous and suggested little benefit from the use of sodium bicoarbonate mouthwashes.
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This review assessing the durability of self-adhesive resin bonding, postoperative sensitivity, and the overall survival rate of indirect restorations compared to total-etch, selective-etch, and self-etch adhesives includes 9 RCTs.
The post Restorative survival rate -self-adhesive resin cement versus selective-etch, total-etch and self-etch adhesives appeared first on National Elf Service.