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The General Dental Council (GDC) has updated its guidance to help students better understand their role in patient safety. Entitled Student professionalism and fitness to practise, the updated resource offers students, patients and education and training providers guidance on the standards required from dental students, which the GDC claims will help them to ‘achieve the level…
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Seb Evans talks to Christopher Hajistilly about how he integrated Ismile into his practice and what the response has been since it was installed. Seb Evans (SE): Can you give us a quick insight into your practice background? Christopher Hajistilly (CH): We have two surgeries, mixed NHS and private, leaning mostly towards private. We’re based…
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched a consultation to reduce its fees dental surgeries pay by 13.5%. The regulator oversees health and social care in England, including more than 10,000 dental practices, and since the government withdrew funding, it has moved to setting fees on a full cost recovery basis, meaning dental practice fees would drop. ‘Only…
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Have you been shortlisted as a finalist for 2016’s Dentistry Scotland Awards? Best Patient Care Dentistry on the Square Southwest Smile Care Centre Tiwari Watson Dental Care. Best NHS Practice Dunbar Dental Practice Eden Orthodontic Centre Southside Dental Care Southwest Smile Care Centre United Dental Care Dundee. Best Private Practice Bite Dentistry Dentistry on the…
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Seb Evans reviews the latest connected electric toothbrush from Philips. Most dentists and dental professionals would probably agree that their job could be made a lot easier if more patients took control of their oral health and kept on top of their oral hygiene. Manufacturers are now joining the fight to help educate patients and…
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David Davies, Monmouth MP, has called for mandatory dental checks to verify migrant’s ages when coming over from Calais. The calls for more stringent checks came yesterday after the media accused migrants of appearing older than they had declared, however the Home Office has ruled out unethical and ineffective X-rays to establish refugees’ ages. Theresa May promised new efforts…
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Over a month ago, Dentistry magazine sent an open letter to the regulators of NHS dentistry in England and Wales expressing concerns over inequalities in UDA allocations. Two weeks ago, we received a response… Dentistry magazine published an open letter in its 1 September issue, sent by editor Julian English and GDP Dr Neel Kothari, to prominent figures…
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The BDA Benevolent Fund is looking for your help this Christmas to support colleagues who are suffering. The charity that supports dentists in financial crisis has experienced almost double the number of applications for help this year when compared with the same period in 2015, despite the number of donations remaining the same. As Christmas is…
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Oasis Dental Care has announced its campaign to support Make-A-Wish UK, after practice teams voted to support the charity. The charity aims to grant the wishes of children and young people fighting life-threatening conditions and Oasis Dental Care will be running local fundraising activities in all of its 360 practices nationwide to raise money for Make-A-Wish UK.…
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Dental services in England have been found to offer high quality care according to the CQC’s State of Care report. The report found 90% of dental practices complied with the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) five key tests, which asks are healthcare providers: Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-led? Following the report, the CQC has again confirmed that…
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Dentistry.co.uk talks to double Olympic silver medallist Becky James after her heroics at this summer’s Rio Olympics. After a hugely successful start in cycling, including the crown of double world champion in 2013, the track cyclist struggled with career-threatening injuries and even suffered a cancer scare. This year has brought a silver lining to the…
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Nigel Jones, Charles Major and Ian Hill discuss the realities of practising dentistry in today’s climate. In these times of uncertainty and in light of the most recent results from the NHS Confidence Monitor survey, Practice Plan wanted to get a better idea of how dentists are faring at grass roots level. To this end,…
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Goodwill values have soared over the last quarter, up 11% over the previous quarter to 138% of gross fees. The latest National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers (NASDAL) goodwill survey has shown a huge jump in the gross fees achieved for private practices, up 51% in the last three months to an average…
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With patient marketing being a key priority for growing practices, business success consultant at Software of Excellence, Bill Starkie, introduces some simple steps for dentists to follow as he outlines the 10 laws of patient marketing. Having conducted some recent research into dentists’ behaviour with regard to patient marketing, we at Software of Excellence were…
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Dentistry.co.uk hosted Dental Politics: The Big Debate earlier this year, where the profession’s key opinion leaders discussed some of the most affecting issues in UK dentistry. Here we look in-depth at the new contract traffic light system. In early March, Dentistry hosted Dental Politics: The Big Debate. Held at the British Dental Association in Wimpole Street,…
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The British Dental Association (BDA) has slammed the government on its commitment for ‘self sufficiency’ within the NHS. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he wants the NHS to be ‘self sufficient’ within 10 years, with a commitment to train 1,500 more doctors every year. However, the BDA has questioned the Health Secretary after 14 UK…
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The British Dental Industry Association (BDIA) has sold the rights for BDIA Dental Showcase to George Warman Publications – BDIA member and part of the Mark Allen Group, and a BDIA member – which will run the exhibition going forward. BDIA president Mike Cann said: ‘Dental Showcase will benefit greatly from this new arrangement, providing fresh initiatives to…
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After lecturing at the prestigious Dentistry 16: Stars of Dentistry, Seb Evans caught up with Christian Coachman to find out about Digital Smile Design and how Christian keeps a good work-life balance. Dr Christian Coachman is a name that will be familiar to many dentists across the UK. For the last few years he has…
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Paula Hamilton gives his experience using Knight Dental smile design laboratory.
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