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After the outstanding success of Patient Plan Direct’s previous ‘Preparing for retirement’ seminars across the UK, it is teaming up once again with practice sales agents, PFM Dental and dental solicitors Goodman Grant, to host an informative and jam packed seminar to ensure those thinking of retirement in the coming years have a solid understanding of all…
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Marie Jalkanen offers some exercises dentists can do to help keep a good circulation whilst at work. To work as a dentist is hard physically because of the precise and static work. Therefore, it’s important to have good, suitable equipment: like ergonomic grip on an instrument, a patient chair that has a good amount of…
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Governments across the UK must pay heed to the economic challenges facing NHS dentistry and maintain their commitment to patients and practitioners, the British Dental Association (BDA) has said in the wake of a recent report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. The Dental Earnings and Expenses 2012/13 report provides a detailed study of…
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Over the past couple of years you will no doubt have read numerous articles outlining some of the day-to-day failures seen within the NHS (some even by myself, perhaps). Whilst the difficulties have been much publicised, many of the things we get right are often forgotten and, dare I say it, taken for granted. The…
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Kai King talks to DH&T about Oral-B’s try before you buy programme and how it has helped speed up the tooth brushing educational process. As consumers we can all be reluctant to embrace new technology unless we’ve experienced it and can see for ourselves the benefits afforded by its use. That’s why Oral-B invited four…
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The British Dental Association (BDA) has maintained that the further information is required in order to make the General Dental Council’s (GDC’s) consultation fair. The BDA has also called on the regulator to disclose the documents passed to accountants KPMG, who has been commissioned by the GDC to review the assumptions underpinning the proposed rise…
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Breakthrough data, published by Colgate, has indicated that the use of a toothpaste containing 1.5% arginine, an insoluble calcium compound and 1450ppm fluoride, provides superior protection against caries, compared to toothpastes containing 1450ppm fluoride alone. Two two-year caries clinical studies, involving over 12,000 people, concluded that the use of a toothpaste containing 1.5% arginine, an…
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United Kapital are pleased to offer a new and innovative way to gain valuable business finance to dentistry businesses across the UK. Seen as a key sector at United Kapital, an ever-growing number of dental practices from across the United Kingdom have been utilising its Merchant Cash Advance to grow their business in a number of…
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Deborah Morris, assistant practice manager from Temple Street Dental Practice, discusses her experience with online booking. Temple Street Dental Practice is a mixed practice based in Oxford that opened as a squat in June 2012, without a single patient. Assistant practice manager, Deb Morris, tells how, despite a tough economic climate, the practice has flourished,…
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The data shows that 97% of respondents have rejected the General Dental Council’s (GDC’s) proposed 64% annual retention fee (ARF) rise. A majority have also questioned the regulator’s justification for any fee rise, and the measures it has taken to cut costs. Over 4,000 individual respondents took part in the GDC consultation. The British Dental…
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Lewis Ballard Specialist Dental Accountants explains whys it is so important to keep patients happy. We have all heard of businesses claiming to give great service and putting the customer above everything else. Yet how many actually deliver on their promises, and why does it matter anyway? Let’s, consider an average dental practice, people come…
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A recent study has called for sugar to make up no more than 3% of total energy intake to reduce the financial and social burdens of tooth decay. The study, from USL and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and published in BMC Public Health, looked at the effects of sugar on dental caries. The World…
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It’s back to school time and, for some children in the UK, the good news is their term may start with better oral health. Over this summer, with sponsorship from the Wrigley Company Foundation, The Plymouth Peninsular Dental School have been giving oral care workshops to children from all over the UK. The workshops were…
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The General Dental Council (GDC) has confirmed that as part of on-going improvements to its fitness to practise processes it has updated its Investigating Committee (IC) Guidance Manual and Indicative Outcomes Guidance for the IC. These can be found on the GDC’s website, here and here. The updated IC guidance manual contains new guidance for pre-meeting discussions,…
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The DDU receives many calls from practices asking how to manage aggrieved patients. Many issues can be resolved swiftly by the practice but occasionally, dental professionals say they have little choice but to end their professional relationship with a patient because trust has broken down. Taking the decision to no longer treat a patient is…
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Instead the GDC (General Dental Council) has pushed back that decision until 30 October – an extension of nearly seven weeks over what was originally proposed. The council will still be meeting on 18 September and ‘will consider the outcomes and some broader themes that have emerged about regulation and the handling of complaints in…
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The achievements of the NASDAL (National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers) Lawyers Group include the development of a standard contract for the sale and purchase of dental practices. Founder of the London based law firm Lockharts, Andrew has specialised in healthcare issues for more than 30 years. His firm, of more than 20…
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Had I been a dental student in Liverpool in the mid-1800s, I would not be working in a busy, modern clinic, but rather in a small dispensary in which the Royal College of Surgeons described the initial teaching resources as consisting of ‘two inconvenient and ill lit rooms’. Thousands of students and five locations later,…
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The General Dental Council’s (GDC) consultation on the annual retention fee (ARF) level closed on 4 September. The GDC has said it is very pleased with the number of responses received and the interest shown by registrants and stakeholders. In total 4,474 responses were received: Dentists – 3813 Dental care professionals – 381 Student dental professionals…
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