A turtle hospital in the Florida Keys called a local dentist for help to mend a sea turtle's broken shell. The dentist, Fred Troxel, used denture repair adhesive to bond two metal plates across a split in the turtle's shell. A month ago, the turtle had arrived at the turtle hospital with its shell possibly fractured by a passing boat.
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It has been announced that dentists can now request the facility to edit their practice profiles and respond to patient feedback on the NHS Choices website direct from the NHS Choices central helpdesk. The ability for dentists to do so has been provided following lengthynegotiations that have stressed the importance of practices being able to change information and counter any inaccurate postings. Previously practices had to apply to NHS commissioners for editing rights. This created an extra hurdle for them.
Honesty Dental Care in Shipley, West Yorkshire, are the 2013 winners of the BDA’s Good Practice Scheme Practice of the Year Award. The Honesty dental team impressed the judges with their outstanding commitment to patient education and their use of new technology to secure long term oral health gains for patients.
Read more: West Yorkshire practice named BDA Good Practice of the Year
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A beautician has appeared in court in Preston to plead guilty to unlawfully practising dentistry. Ms Elaine Taylor-Valles is the first person to be successfully prosecuted by the GDC since the High Court upheld the view that tooth whitening is the practice of dentistry and should only be carried out by dentists, dental hygienists and dental therapists, working on the prescription of a dentist.
The BDTA has launched a new interactive mobile app specially designed to help you plan your day at Dental Showcase. For iPhone and Android phones: visit your iTunes App Store or Google Play on your smartphone and search for “BDTA Dental Showcase”, then simply download.
For all other internet-enabled mobile phones: visit http://customers2.eventgenie.com/bdtadentalshowcase via your phone.
Read more: You can now download the BDTA Dental Showcase mobile app
At the General Dental Practice Committee meeting in London on Friday 4th October a motion was proposed: “The General Dental Practice Committee recommends that an Emergency General Meeting of the BDA’s UK Council is urgently convened, to examine the impact of the new membership structure on the Association.” This was passed UNANIMOUSLY by GDPC. The BDA membership needs to know that there is strong feeling amongst their elected representatives, and this is being resisted by the leadership of the BDA. |
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NHS dental practices continue to attract higher prices than private practices according to the latest goodwill survey results from NASDAL. Carried out quarterly, the most recent survey for the period April to July shows that on average, an NHS practice – defined as a practice with more than 80% of its income from its NHS contract – was 105.2%.
According to President of Athens Dental Association Athanassios Yfantis, nearly 600 dentists have left the country due to financial crisis affecting their profession. “Dentistry has been significantly damaged by the long-standing crisis. Dental human resources migrating abroad every year is constantly increasing and regards all age groups,” Yfantis said.
Dental practice sale completions are continuing to be delayed following new NHS England requirements in respect of the CQC as well more stringent lending criteria from the banks, warns Amanda Maskery, of NASDAL. She said the average sale time of a dental practice began to take longer after April 1 this year when NHS England established new criteria for variation of the NHS contract. This affected practices where the buyer and the seller briefly entered into a partnership in order to transfer the contract.
