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GDC launches consultation on ARF for 2016

The General Dental Council (GDC) has launched a consultation on the level of its annual retention fee (ARF) for 2016.…

Dentistry

Need a helping hand achieving your dream dental business?

Practice Plan offers a series of regional events to help you make sense of running a business. There are very…

Dentistry

New advice on raising concerns

New advice has been given to help dental professionals who think a colleague’s behaviour is putting people at risk. The…

Dentistry

Repair or replace?

Buying new equipment is a big expenditure, but at what point does repairing become throwing good money after bad? Eugene…

Private Practice

How to double your hygienist fees

Simon Hocken says what many patients may be thinking when it comes to formulaic hygienist appointments, and gives some tips…

Dentistry

GDC’s consultation over ARF ‘shows nothing has changed’

The General Dental Council (GDC) has launched a new consultation over the annual retention fees (ARF), suggesting a freeze in…

Dentistry

Kevin rides again

The ever-growing legislation involved within dentistry is creating a crisis within the profession, Kevin Lewis believes. No, not this Kevin…

Dentistry

Children’s decay a ‘postcode lottery’

Children’s tooth decay is a ‘postcode lottery’, a new report has found, and therapists are calling for a health summit…

Oral health

Dental Protection’s Horizons Roadshow

Dental Protection ran a show around the UK advising the dental team how to reduce the risk of a claim…

Dentistry

Brighton and Hove launches voluntary sugar tax

Brighton and Hove has launched a voluntary sugar tax, becoming the first British city to do so. The council has…

Dentistry

See the entire A-Dec and Belmont range under one roof

Hague’s Dental Practice Design Centre, near Gatwick features the entire A-dec and Belmont Range of dental chairs, 12 modern and…

Private Practice

The future of facial aesthetics

A new survey of dentists and GPs has shown that 90% have considered offering facial aesthetic treatments. The reason many…

Aesthetic dentistry

The Dentistry Scotland Awards 2015 finalists

The Dentistry Scotland Awards is rapidly approaching. Here we announce the finalists of the 2015 awards. Best New Practice 8 to…

Dentistry

The inverse care law

Those that most need dental care are least likely to receive it, Michael Watson believes. My attention was recently drawn…

Dentistry

Be responsive with your website

Krishan Joshi, CEO of Dental Focus, sheds light on some of the recent changes that effect website ranking. In the…

Dentistry

Olly Murs visits the dentist for the first time in 15 years

Olly Murs has finally visited the dentist…for the first time in 15 years. The singer and The X Factor co-presenter…

Celebrity News

NHS England needs to fund preventive programmes

Michael Watson reviews some of the talks held at the BADT in Birmingham. Last week I visited the British Association of…

Dentistry

Vienna calling

Alignment is on the programme! The European Aligner Society, which was formally launched at the International Orthodontic Congress in late…

Orthodontics

Dental fees – how does your practice measure up?

How do your practice’s fees for consultations and treatments measure up against others in your region? In partnership with Practice Plan,…

Dentistry