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Facial aesthetics and professional indemnity
Harry Singh explores the brave new world of facial aesthetics and professional indemnity. We live in a consumer-driven world, and…
Aesthetic dentistry
Can our regulators learn from the aviation industry?
After shutting Gatwick, Neel Kothari questions whether the GDC should be following the lead set by the aviation industry. Let…
Blog
What you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… Patient charge revenue…
Dentistry
Enhanced CPD Dentistry comes to a snowy London
Enhanced CPD Dentistry came to a snowy London today, providing delegates with nine hours of core CPD in one day.…
Dentistry
GDC launches consultation on dental specialties
The GDC is seeking your views in its new consultation on specialist listings, launched today. The consultation, which closes on…
Dentistry
Evans above – our first monthly vlog!
Welcome to our first monthly vlog about the latest trends and topics in UK dentistry. This month we speak to…
Blog
What you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… A third of…
Dentistry
Brexit – what’s going on?
Luke Moore gives his thoughts over what the potential implications of Brexit will be on dentistry. Despite its dominance in the…
Dentistry
A third of European dentists may leave the UK after Brexit
Almost a third of dentists from Europe are considering leaving the UK in the next few years. That’s according to…
Dentistry
GDC publishes CPD literature review research
Following the GDC’s ‘Shifting the balance: a better, fairer system of dental regulation’, a systematic literature review on CPD has…
Dentistry
Matching up to patient expectations
The skills needed to be a good practitioner are as much technical as they are personal, John Makin says. Understanding…
Blog
DDU advises practices to avoid using dental jargon
The DDU has advised dental professionals to avoid using dental jargon when speaking to patients and colleagues. It claims using…
Dentistry
Balancing the two sides of dentistry
John Makin explains that dentistry is a balancing act between commercial interests and patient care. There can be little doubt…
Blog
CPD end-of-cycle approaching for 6,000 dentists
GDC advises that there are only eight working days for those planning to make grace period application. On 31 December…
Dentistry
GDC changes approach to setting fees
The General Dental Council (GDC) has announced it is changing the way it sets the annual retention fee (ARF). A consultation was launched…
Dentistry
What you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… NHS dentists to…
Dentistry
GDC changes quality assurance for dentists’ education and training
GDC commits to development of a risk-based quality assurance process for dental education In Shifting the balance, as part of…
Dentistry
BOS welcomes new universal complaints handling principles for dentistry
Six universal principles in complaints handling identified by a working group established in collaboration with the General Dental Council have…
Orthodontics
Good complaint handling core principles published
Organisations from across dentistry have joined forces to create a set of universal principles for good complaint handling. The organisations,…
Dentistry