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Find out what’s going on in the Dental Update Theatre at this year’s BDIA Dental Showcase. Dental Update Theatre – Friday 20 and Sat 21 October At this year’s Dental Showcase there’ll be a range of lectures for you to attend, all guaranteed to extend your skills and competency with practical knowledge that you can…
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Join the hundreds of dental practitioners who came together in Manchester at a Colgate exclusive CPD event. The evening gave an overview on how they can provide clinical leadership to ensure their practices are totally ready for prevention. Dr Eric Rooney, deputy chief dental officer for England shared a review of the learnings and direction…
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Why not get involved in Colgate’s Bright Smiles, Bright Futures CPD programme. The Colgate ‘Bright Smiles, Bright Futures’ CPD programme focuses on children and involves community engagement via a range of settings such as primary schools, nurseries and children’s clubs. This programme encourages greater community engagement and is a great way to promote your practice…
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The General Dental Council responds to Eddie Scher’s tough questions. The GDC’s role is to protect patients and help to maintain the public’s confidence in dental services. This of course requires us to make difficult decisions, and we feel it is important to be transparent with you about the reasons for these decisions, where we…
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Starting Well, a new innovative programme to ensure children receive better dental advice, has been launched by the Government. The programme will help dental teams go out into the community and teach children in high-risk areas about the importance of oral health and encourage parents to take their children to the dentist. Dental teams will offer this through…
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BDIA Dental Showcase is back, and this year it’s bigger than ever. Technology is constantly evolving and chances are it will have been a few years since you invested in new equipment for the practice. Your existing tools might be working just fine, and may not ever become obsolete, but aren’t you just a tiny…
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The launch of the Dental Check by One programme is at last some good news for dentistry, Michael Watson says. Do you want the good news or the bad news, they sometimes ask? For those watching BBC TV’s Breakfast last Friday morning at a quarter to eight, the bad news came in the graphic form…
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A map of the UK has been created to show the different levels of NHS dental access for children aged two and under. Based around the most recent figures released by NHS Digital, the map depicts a north-south divide in terms of access – a young child in the north is more than twice as…
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CDOs from England, Wales and Scotland, along with other major organisations across dentistry gathered today to launch the Dental Check by One campaign. The campaign, by the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD), aims to remind parents and guardians of the importance of children seeing a dentist by the age of one. The BSPD believes the first…
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Starting Well, an unfunded programme to tackle children’s tooth decay, has been launched in Manchester. The programme aims to ensure that every child in Greater Manchester will have a dental appointment by one by creating and developing links between nursery settings and dental services. Starting Well will target areas with high decay rates in children around…
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The number of written complaints received by the NHS increased 4.9% in 2016/17, new figures from NHS Digital show. Specifically there were a total of 90,600 written complaints to GP and dental practices in 2016/17, which is an increase of 9.7% in these areas. Of the total number of primary care complaints NHS England received, 14.6% were…
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We speak to Simon Hughes, managing director at Christie & Co, about what the current dental practice sales market is like and how to prepare for selling or buying a practice. For more information visit www.christie.com.
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Pat Langley explains why dentists should take advantage of Dentex. For more information visit dentexhealth.co.uk.
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Fast forward five, 10 or even 20 years. What will the practice of the future look like? How will the dental practice have evolved? What will patients expect? Where will the challenges come from? It’s sometimes hard to take it all in. Fortunately, Dental Showcase 2017 is the perfect forum to take ‘time out’ and…
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NHS dentists’ taxable income has dropped by 35% in real terms since 2006, according to new figures from NHS Digital. Real incomes for a practice-owning dentist have fallen by more than £45,000 over the last decade to an average of £69,200 in 2015/16. Despite this, costs for regulation in dentistry have jumped by 1,086% over…
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Sara Hurley, chief dental officer for England, is urging NHS dentists to give their views in a nationwide survey. At the recent Expo healthcare conference in Manchester, Sara Hurley launched the survey to find out thoughts on clinical examination and record keeping guidelines, as well as assessing views on whether information, such as contact details, treatments and…
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Speakers at the Digital Dentistry Show, Adam Nulty and Mervyn Druian, highlight why going digital can benefit your practice and your patients. Dentistry.co.uk: How has going digital benefitted your practice and patients? Adam Nulty (AN): I developed my practice with the goal of being completely paperless and fully digital. As the costs of these solutions…
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A new fluoride-free toothpaste, formulated to adhere to the tooth surface and slowly release calcium and phosphate ions, is being launched by Biomin Technologies. BioMin C, which helps replace lost minerals from tooth surfaces, is designed for those who, for a variety of reasons, do not wish to use fluoride-containing products but still want to…
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See the future of UK dentistry for yourself at this year’s Dental Showcase in Birmingham. All of us wish we could take a peek into the dental future, to be able to gaze into a crystal ball to see what life will be like in the coming years. Well, this autumn those wishes can come…
