Amid all the reports of questions in the commons, the media coverage and the professions take on the state of UK dentistry, patients’ opinions have often been an afterthought.
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Dr Tony Barriere, a Los Angeles dentist, has always looked to integrate new technology in his practice and has been using 3D printing widely, but his latest piece of kit is much more exotic.
The annual Benchmarking report from NASDAL (National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers) is a major fixture in the dental business calendar.
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Dentistry seldom enjoys a good press. It either makes the headlines when patients can’t access it or, when very rarely in the scale of things, a dentist gets ‘done’ for some treatment gone wrong or a financial scam is exposed.
A Ukrainian dentist has joined the effort to help fleeing refugees find safe shelter with European families.
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In their evasive response to an FOI request from GDPUK the CQC have as good as confirmed that they are all about optics and have little interest in outcomes. This relates to their abject failure to ensure that organisations that should register, actually do.
The value of deals in the UK Health & Social Care sector is hitting record levels and stands at £6.01bn so far for 2021, according to BLM’s Health Sector Deals Diagnosis.
With NHS dentistry in a sorry state, patients, dental teams and bureaucrats, seem to be working their way through the five stages of grief, albeit at different stages of the process.
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It may seem like putting on a mime performance for the visually impaired, but each year the BDA does it’s best to explain to those in charge, why dentists and their teams deserve to be properly paid.