When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 one of the first things that East German dentists wanted to get from their colleagues in the West was the local anaesthetic, Articaine.
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The Health and Social Care Committee has announced an inquiry into dentistry.
The cross-party Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the policy, administration and expenditure of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Fallow time. Face masks for all. Patients locked out, queuing in the cold. Interminable screening questions. Donning and Doffing (with allocated zones and ‘how to’ posters on the wall). FFP3. Telephone triaging. Aerosol procedures…
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Unusually, but in common with some organisations including the British Medical Association, the BDA is both a company and a trade union.
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On 18th November 2022 the World Health Organisation (WHO) published its first Global Oral Health Status Report for twenty years. The key takeaways make for disturbing reading.
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Weary registrants may not have had time to read all of the recent “Latest Updates from the GDC” email, that landed in their in-boxes recently. There is a lot of content, including a report on a meeting of “a new Dental Leadership Network.”
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The vexed question of the status of associates has returned to the spotlight as the British Dental Association (BDA) has unveiled new associate agreements that acknowledge the existence of three tiers of employment status operating in the UK.
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With constant news coverage of the UK’s dental access crisis it would be easy to conclude that this is a particularly British problem. Dentaid, the charity that began by providing assistance in Ukraine and Malawi, now runs programmes in Britain. But it appears that Brexit, the NHS and austerity are not essential requirements for a developed nation to have serious problems with dental services.
Another week, and another parliamentary debate about dentistry. This time in the House of Lords and simply headed in Hansard as “NHS Dental Contract”.
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