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.
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The General Dental Council has once again avoided answering questions posed in a Freedom of Information request
GDC Says It Doesn’t Hold Information On The Nature Of Its Own Investigations
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.
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British Orthodontic Society Holds Its Most Successful Conference Yet, As Press Conference Reveals The GDC Hasn’t Engaged With Direct-To-Consumer Orthodontics Since 2021
The British Orthodontic Society attracted its largest number of participants yet to the annual British Orthodontic Conference (BOC), at Birmingham’s International Conference Centre.
Dismay And Despair At NHS Statement
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.
Minister's ABCD Gets Off To A Shaky Start
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.
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Dental Volunteers Work Magic In Malawi
In this GDPUK exclusive interview, Guy Tuggle talks to Dental Therapist Eleanor Ridge about her recent trip to Malawi with Dentaid.
Contract Reform – with a dash of history and art
Contract reform is on the agenda again – or maybe it never left. A recent paper in the BDJ from Rebecca Harris and Rachel Foskett-Tharby of NHS England describes the problem of the current dental contract as ‘wicked’ or ‘stubborn.’
Racism
In a football season where a statue has been raised in Plymouth of Jack Leslie, a black footballer, racism is in the news. Leslie played 400 times for Plymouth Argyle in the 1920’s and 30’s, scoring 137 times in the football league. Selected for the England squad in 1925, in the form of his life, he...
Patient complaints - inevitable but not irrevocable
Suki Singh talks to dentist and Head of Indemnity at the BDA, Len D’Cruz, about the inevitability of complaints and how to prevent them from escalating.
Why now is the best time to begin your retirement planning
Paul Barnfather, Specialist Dental Financial Adviser for Wesleyan Financial Services, shares how there is a cost when delaying financial planning for retirement.
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Does animal-assisted therapy help reduce dental anxiety?
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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Sodium bicarbonate for the management of oral mucositis
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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Restorative survival rate -self-adhesive resin cement versus selective-etch, total-etch and self-etch adhesives
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.
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