Dentistry

Dentistry Fees Survey results – crowns

We reveal the average fees charged by private practices across the UK for crowns in the Dentistry Fees Survey. At…

Dentistry

England expects

Kevin Lewis weighs up the latest round of NHS junior doctors’ strikes in England. Lost in all the noise and…

Dentistry

Concerns over the future of the Designed to Smile programme raised

The future of the Designed to Smile programme, the oral health improvement programme in Wales, has been called into question.…

Dentistry

Half of adults in England not visiting an NHS dentist

Almost half (48.3%) of adults in England haven’t seen an NHS dentist in the last two years, figures from NHS Digital…

Dentistry

Get 28% off the Adhese Universal Vivapen

Why choose the Adhese Universal Vivapen? The Adhese Universal Vivapen allows simple ‘click’ activation, which dispenses the exact amount of…

Dentistry

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…

Software of Excellence

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