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Published: Monday, 12 September 2016 07:53
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Retired dentist, Lord Colwyn, was speaking in a debate on the NHS in the House of Lords. He stressed the importance to the ‘long-term sustainability of the NHS of improving the nation’s oral health and ensuring good dental care’. He raised the issues of people visiting their GP with toothache and the high number of children be admitted to hospitals for extortions.
Read more: Lord Colwyn speaks up for dentistry
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Published: Monday, 12 September 2016 07:52
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Dentists are less likely to prescribe antibiotics after they receive a personalised report detailing their past prescription rates, according to a randomised controlled trial of UK dentists published in PLOS Medicine, by Linda Young, NHS Education for Scotland, UK, Jan Clarkson, University of Dundee and Craig Ramsay, Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, and colleagues.
Read more: Ways to decrease dentists antibiotic prescribing investigated
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Published: Thursday, 08 September 2016 07:04
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Speaking at the NHS Expo conference in Manchester, Dr Sara Hurley. CDO England, said the “worried well” are going to the dentist too often and are taking appointments away from patients who need them. She was launching a national preventive campaign, Smile4Life, which will encourage the public to treat dental health as a lifelong issue.
Read more: CDO urges patients to kick the 6-month check-up habit
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Published: Wednesday, 07 September 2016 07:40
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The Government’s child obesity strategy, including oral health, has been put on ice after delays of almost a year. However Health Committee chair, Sarah Wollaston MP says she hopes to use her Committee’s influence to strengthen before it is published in the autumn.
Read more: Obesity strategy delayed but Wollaston hopes for improvements
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Published: Wednesday, 07 September 2016 07:40
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Professor Liz Kay has been appointed as a specialist committee member on the oral health promotion in care homes and hospitals Quality Standards Advisory Committee at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). Liz said: ‘This is a huge honour and a great opportunity to help form improvements to oral health promotion in health care environments where there is need.’
Read more: Liz Kay to help improve oral health in care homes
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Published: Tuesday, 06 September 2016 07:40
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The Times reports that hundreds of thousands of GP appointments are being taken by patients with toothache as they try to avoid rising fees for NHS dentists. The article, co-written by health editor Chris Smyth and GDP, Neel Kothari, says that data from a study of 280,000 GP consultations over ‘tooth problems’ was used to estimate that 600,000 appointments a year are made by patients seeking dental care, costing the NHS more than £26 million a year.
Read more: Patients going to GP with toothache cost NHS £26 million
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Published: Monday, 05 September 2016 07:57
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An NHS dental service turned away 25-stone chef suffering unbearable toothache because he was too fat, according to a newspaper report. Andrew Keitley, 55, was told by staff members at St David's Hospital in Cardiff that the dental chair would not be able to hold his weight. He had disclosed his weight on a registration form at the practice.
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Published: Monday, 05 September 2016 07:54
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It could only happen in America. An Ohio man accidentally shot himself during a dentist’s appointment. James White, 72, was under nitrous oxide sedation at when he thought he heard his phone ring, went to grab it, but accidentally grabbed his pistol and fired the weapon. A bullet went through his hand and grazed his stomach.
Read more: Man accidentally shoots himself at dentist
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Published: Thursday, 01 September 2016 07:33
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The waiting list to see an NHS dentist in Exeter has increased by nearly five times in a year, a local paper reports. Bradford MP, Judith Cummins, asked Ministers to increase the number of NHS dentists practising in her constituency and other areas with significantly above average incidences of oral and dental health problems
Read more: Access problems to NHS dentistry rising
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