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Catch The Singing Dentist at Showcase
The Singing Dentist joins the line-up of Practice Plan‘s Business Skills Theatre speakers at this year’s BDIA Dental Showcase. Practice…
Dentistry
GDC launches new scheme to encourage local resolution
The General Dental Council (GDC) has introduced a new process of dealing with complaints, encouraging local resolution. Following a pilot…
Dentistry
Profession calls for more positive messages about NHS dentistry
NHS dentistry should be conveyed more positively in the national press, according to the latest NHS Confidence Monitor survey results. Dental professionals…
Dentistry
The changing face of dentistry
The future of dentistry will move responsibility away from the associates to the contract holders, Michael Watson says. Last week NHS…
Dentistry
Capturing a snapshot of the dental profession
The FGDP(UK) is hoping to capture a current snapshot of the dental profession this October, as it undertakes an ambitious initiative…
Dentistry
Dishonest dentists and dental care professionals treated too harshly
Dishonest dentists and dental care professionals are being too harshly treated by regulators, a new report has claimed. The report, Dishonest…
Dentistry
Cost of compliance rockets 1086% in the last 10 years
The cost of compliance has jumped by a huge 1086% over the past decade, according to the latest research from…
Dentistry
Calculating ROI just got a whole lot easier
If you think measuring return on investment sounds too much like hard work, Guy Meyers, head of customer success and…
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Efficiently risk assessing children
Shivana Anand and Rebecca Northover highlight the signs that better classify caries risk in paediatric patients. Risk assessing paediatric patients…
Dentistry
Dentists’ income drops by 15.7% in the last five years
NHS contract holders’ average taxable income in England and Wales dropped 15.7% in the last five years to £117,400 in…
Dentistry
Nasal spray sedative more effective with children
Nasal spray sedative may be more effective with children than traditional methods, new research has shown. A study, published in Anesthesia…
Dentistry
Reputation, reputation, reputation
Jonathan Fine points out the importance of protecting your reputation online. ‘Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft…
Dentistry
Sticks and stones
Kevin Lewis reviews the latest ‘dental horror chronicles’ published in the media. Was it something we said, perhaps? Or is…
Dentistry
There should be no more part-funded NHS treatments
It is time for the NHS to list what is available on the NHS, and what will be privately funded,…
Dentistry
CDO responds to ‘six-month check-up’ media furore
Sara Hurley has responded to criticisms of her comments at the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo regarding patient recall intervals, stating that the…
Dentistry
CDO whips up a storm at NHS Expo
The chief dental officer has called for dentistry to be made an integrated member of the NHS family at an…
Dentistry
NHS charges ‘driving patients to GPs’
NHS dental charges are driving patients to visit GPs rather than dentists, new analysis from the British Dental Association (BDA) has…
Dentistry
Become a part of the Planmeca experience today
Driving dental innovation Planmeca has always driven dental innovation and now it is driving innovation right to the practice door!…
Dentistry
‘GP appointments taken by patients with toothache’
Michael Watson responds to The Times story: ‘Toothache patients costs GPs £26m a year’ An article in today’s Times co-written…
Dentistry
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