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Published: Wednesday, 08 October 2014 19:27
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The BDA has told the GDC – ‘come clean, or we'll seek court order’. Mick Armstrong, Chair of the PEC, said: “From the start the GDC has stubbornly refused to disclose the key information behind its planned fee hike. We’ve sought reasonable clarity but all we have been left with is a growing list of unanswered questions. Well today we couldn’t be clearer - the GDC has to come clean or we will seek a court order.”
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Published: Wednesday, 08 October 2014 08:08
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Patient Plan Direct has announced that its Rebate Reward campaign that ran from April to June has helped incentivise many of its client’s front of house staff to promote patients to join their dental plan and benefit from preventative dentistry. Practices that qualified for a reward have received their cheques.
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Published: Tuesday, 07 October 2014 07:24
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The latest goodwill survey from NASDAL for the quarter ending July 31st reflects a buoyant market for the sale and purchase of dental practices, with NHS contracts still a strong selling point. NASDAL member Alan Suggett said that the average goodwill value secured for a practice with an NHS contract was 144% of gross fee income and for a mixed practice it was 116% of turnover.
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Published: Monday, 06 October 2014 07:31
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The largest dental laboratory in the UK has gone into administration with the loss of 120 jobs according to reports in the local newspaper The Bolton News. Workers at the lab said they were told they were being made redundant before being asked to leave the premises. Leeds-based accountant Mazars has been appointed administrator.
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Published: Monday, 06 October 2014 07:30
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In a case that has parallels with the UK, the US Supreme Court will hear a case on whether non-dentists can carry out tooth whitening. The North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners is challenging a Federal Trade Commission order that said the board is trying to kill off competition from day spas and tanning booths that offer teeth-whitening.
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Published: Thursday, 02 October 2014 07:19
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In reply to a question by dentist peer Baroness Gardner of Parkes, health minister Earl Howe revealed the cost to be £3.1 million for minor extractions and £27.4 million for multiple teeth – a total of £30.5 million. The data covers all tooth extractions in hospital, and does not distinguish between deciduous or adult teeth.
Read more: Cost of child extractions is over £30 million
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Published: Tuesday, 30 September 2014 19:40
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Professor Philip John Lamey has been struck off by the General Dental Council (GDC) following a public hearing into multiple allegations of poor care, patient management and record keeping. Of 215 allegations, 110 were found proved. The proven facts in this case relate to the treatment of 27 patients between 2006 and 2010. They relate to a period when he was working as a Consultant in Oral Medicine at the School of Dentistry, Belfast.
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Published: Monday, 29 September 2014 19:02
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The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD) has welcomed the oral health survey of 3-year-olds. Claire Stevens, a Consultant in Paediatric Dentistry said: “While the majority of pre-school age children in England are dentally healthy, there are still thousands of children as young as three who are undergoing multiple extractions under a general anaesthetic due to a disease that is entirely preventable.”
Read more: BSPD and BDA respond to report on 3yr olds
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Published: Monday, 29 September 2014 18:41
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A new survey by Public Health England (PHE) shows that 12% of 3 year olds have visible tooth decay. Although the large majority of children (88%) are free from decay, there was wide variation from 2% - 34%. Dr Sandra White, Director of Dental Public Health at PHE, said: “Tooth decay is an entirely preventable disease, which can be very painful and even result in a child having teeth removed under general anaesthetic, which is stressful for children and parents alike.”
Read more: Wide variation in dental decay among 3 year olds
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