The General Dental Council received fewer concerns about registrants last year than in 2019, according to the regulator’s Annual Report for 2020.
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“Governments are legally accountable for their failure to protect children from the damage that excessive sugar consumption causes,” a leading expert will argue at a dental conference in the Autumn.
Three people are reported to have been shot at a facility run by the direct-to-consumer orthodontics company, Smile Direct Club.
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Access to NHS dentistry in Yorkshire has reached a ‘new low’ according to Healthwatch York.
With an increasing number of dentists in the UK venturing into the cosmetic world of Botox and Dermal Fillers, the British Dental Association has urged practitioners to be appropriately protected.
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If you anticipated that the newly updated Standard Operating Procedure guidance would bring joy and excitement at the prospect of an end to the shackles of fallow times, you were probably, like many, seriously underwhelmed.
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“Dentistry is a hugely important service” says the new Chief Executive Officer of NHS England.
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The General Dental Council is facing further calls for transparency, following its latest response to a Freedom of Information request regarding the regulator’s use of private investigators.
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Jo Churchill has amended her statement on dentists playing merely an ‘ad-hoc’ role in the detection of oral cancer.