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Tooth whitening on both sides of the pond
Illegal teeth whitening seems to crop up almost every week through a press release from the General Dental Council (GDC)…
Aesthetic dentistry
Crisis in child oral health
Michael Watson discusses what needs to be done to improve the oral health of the nation’s children. Last week I…
Dentistry
And now for something completely different
And now for something completely different – to borrow a phrase from Monty Python. For a change this week I…
Dentistry
What is the purpose of the GDC?
The Government’s response to the Law Commission’s report on the regulation of health and social care professionals is neither an…
Dentistry
More people being seen under the NHS
A total of 30 million patients were seen in the 24-month period ending 31 December, 2014, which is an increase…
Dentistry
Study suggests oral screening a role for the dental team
Fiona Sandom, who is president of the British Association of Dental Therapists (BADT), has drawn our attention to a new…
Dentistry
Michael Watson questions what is available under the NHS?
Last month Which? launched a campaign to ‘clean up dental costs’, with a lurid picture of a sweating patient being…
Dentistry
GDC to co-operate with NHS England
The General Dental Council (GDC) and NHS England will launch a pilot scheme, which will aim to ensure that concerns…
Dentistry
A closer look at the prototype contracts
What will dentists think of the prototype contracts announced last week? Those who wanted to see the back of the…
Dentistry
The new dental contract prototypes explained
The long awaited proposals for dental contract prototypes have now been released by the Department of Health. It was at…
Dentistry
New Year’s resolutions
Seventeen days is the average period during that we adhere to New Year’s resolutions apparently. So by this time in January most…
Dentistry
Michael Watson reviews the letter published in the Daily Telegraph
On 2 January the Daily Telegraph published a letter signed by over one hundred dentists, a new version of the…
Dentistry
The search for a new dental contract
Michael Watson explains how the current dental contract could be made to work, and why it currently isn’t. Long before Harry…
Dentistry
Michael Watson asks questions of the recent 22,000-patient recall
Last week’s media frenzy about the recall of 22,000 patients of a Nottingham dentist seen over a period of 30…
Dentistry
What is the GDC for? Michael Watson takes a closer look
My intention this week had been to steer clear of the General Dental Council (GDC), however Mr Moyes’s talk to…
Dentistry
Michael Watson reviews the increased ARF announced by the GDC
Last week, as everyone in dentistry now knows, the General Dental Council (GDC) voted to sharply increase the amount dentists…
Dentistry
Michael Watson looks at the latest guidance from NICE on children’s oral health
I don’t know what surprised me most last Wednesday – the BDA (British Dental Association) welcoming moving prevention from practice…
Dentistry
Michael Watson reviews the latest advice about the danger of counterfeit dental equipment
The expression ‘If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is’ probably goes back 500 years or more,…
Dentistry
Is now the time for lobbying by dentists in the lead up to the General Election 2015?
The date is 8 May, 2015. Her Majesty the Queen is preparing to invite Nigel Farage to form a Government…
Dentistry