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Kevin Lewis – fourteen wrongs don’t make a right

Don’t believe everything you hear via social media, chatrooms and the professional grapevine, warns Kevin Lewis. Just because the GDC…

Dentistry

Contemporary Hygienists – the importance of being assertive

How assertive are you? This month Claire Berry and Faye Donald discuss the benefits of developing an assertive communication style…

Oral health

How to grow your private practice by transforming your patient consultations

Join Justin Leigh on Wednesday 23 November at 7pm as he discusses how to grow your private practice by transforming…

Private Practice

Baby breakfast pouches contain up to four teaspoons of sugar, study shows

Experts are calling for the government to fight misleading marketing claims following a new report from Action on Sugar. The…

Oral health

For the chosen few…

Earlier this year, Shaz Memon put on an event to remember for the dental profession. Seb Evans looks forward to…

Dentistry

Tiktok orthodontist advised ‘harmful’ treatment to young patients, tribunal told

An orthodontist whose jaw-shaping methods have gone viral advised treatment to children that ‘carried a risk of harm’, according to…

Orthodontics

How will they respond to feedback?

This month, Jamie Morley discusses responses to feedback, including how to recognise a normal response and the steps you need…

Dentistry

Question Time – NHS England’s dental contract changes and the findings so far

Join Nigel Jones, Chris Groombridge and Shiv Pabary MBE on Tuesday 22 November at 7pm for a Question Time discussion of…

Dentistry

‘Hugely impressed’ – Paul Tipton on winning an award at the Private Dentistry Awards 2022

Following this year’s Private Dentistry Awards evening, Paul Tipton discusses what it was like to walk away with an award…

Private Practice

Dental inequalities – water fluoridation should be ‘carefully considered’ with other options

Introducing water fluoridation is not enough to improve dental health inequalities across the UK. This is according to a new…

Oral health

Lab in the Limelight – CW Dentures

In the first of a new series, this month’s Lab in the Limelight is CW Dentures! We spoke to lab…

Laboratory

90 seconds with… Stevie Potter

We speak with Stevie Potter about completing the Ironman, her history with amateur dramatics, and the best advice that she…

Dentistry

How to protect vulnerable patients

Sue N’Jie discusses factors you should consider when dealing with vulnerable patients. Now more than ever, it’s important for dental…

Dentistry

Five reasons why now is a good time to go private

Practice Plan area sales Manager, Suki Singh, gives five reasons why now is a great time to make the move…

NHS to Private

Organisational duty of candour in Scotland

Simon Kidd, dentolegal adviser at the Dental Defence Union (DDU), explains the duty of candour and what to do when…

Dentistry Scotland

How much attention have you paid to the dental news this week? – 12 November 2022

Missed out on last week’s dental news? Here’s what happened over the past seven days… Mouth cancer on the rise…

Dentistry

GDC was unable to disclose number of suicides

After being unable to reveal data on the number of people who have died by suicide while under fitness to…

Dentistry

Overpaid stamp duty? Dentists could be owed £50,000

James Langton reveals hidden overpayments of stamp duty by SIPP and SSAS pensions. It’s long been the case that part…

Dentistry

DIY orthodontics is potentially dangerous, BOS reiterates

The British Orthodontic Society (BOS) explain why DIY orthodontics is so risky and the necessary limits of teledentistry. Following the…

Orthodontics