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Dental News
Tooth wear and bruxism: Dentistry’s hidden struggle
When it comes to tooth wear, there are two primary aetiologies that I as a practising dentist encounter most frequently. The first, erosion, is often linked...
Leading UK dental provider to cut 85 clinics, citing inflation, energy prices and lack of dentists
LONDON, UK: Bupa Dental Care will sell or merge 85 of its UK dental clinics, owing to increased costs and the dire condition of National Health Service ...
BDA warns new chancellor that further cuts will kill NHS dentistry
LONDON, UK: Amid the political upheaval that has engulfed the UK in recent weeks, the British Dental Association has written an email to new Chancellor ...
Dental Protection uncovers troubling legal outcomes for overseas-trained dentists
LONDON, UK: Over the last decade, internationally qualified dentists (IQDs) have made up an increasingly large proportion of the UK’s dental workforce ...
Report: Investors favouring private UK dental practices as faith in NHS reform declines
LONDON, UK: Though the National Health Service (NHS) is considered an exemplar of what a public health model can achieve, its dental arm has increasingly ...
GDC reveals continuing impact of COVID-19 on UK dentistry
LONDON, UK: As the statutory regulator for all dental professionals across the UK, the General Dental Council’s (GDC’s) main aim is to maximise patient ...
“This is how NHS dentistry will die”: BDA issues warning after decline in dental services reported
LONDON, UK: A new poll commissioned by the British Dental Association (BDA) has revealed several worrying trends about the state of public dentistry in the ...
Dental profession delighted to be back at British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show
BIRMINGHAM, UK: Despite the unavoidable two-year interlude, the 2022 British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show (BDCDS) came back stronger than ever. ...
British dental show in Birmingham all about engagement and hands-on experiences
BIRMINGHAM, UK: The British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show (BDCDS) took place from 12 to 13 May, and the UK dental sector attended in strong numbers ...
COVID-19 pandemic: Young dentists concerned, doubtful about their future in dentistry
LONDON, UK: Dental Protection says that the vast backlog in patient treatments—a lingering consequence of the pandemic—is negatively affecting the ...
Dentists providing cosmetic injectables to require licence
LONDON, UK: A steady rise in the popularity of non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as injections of dermal fillers and botulinum toxin has resulted in UK ...
2022 British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show: An event not to be missed
BIRMINGHAM, UK: The British Dental Conference and Dentistry Show (BDCDS), the UK’s leading two-day exhibition and conference for dental professionals, is ...
Health regulators reiterate support amid pandemic pressures
LONDON, UK: Providing health and social care during the pandemic has been fraught with challenges. As health services face ongoing pandemic and seasonal ...
BDIA Dental Showcase to return with a bang in 2022
LONDON, UK: The past two years have wreaked havoc on physical dental events, yet there remains reason for optimism. On 25 and 26 March 2022, the BDIA Dental...
New NHS Scotland guidance criticised by BDA
STIRLING, UK: Earlier this week, NHS Scotland released new guidance for the prevention and handling of potential respiratory infections in healthcare ...
Prof. Liz Kay assumes role of BDA president
LONDON, UK: On 7 September, renowned academic and dental public health specialist Prof. Liz Kay was inaugurated as the British Dental Association’s (BDA) ...
Males account for more than 60% of speakers at UK dental conferences
LEEDS, UK: Researchers from the University of Leeds and the University of Liverpool examined the gender balance of invited speakers at dental conferences ...
BDA mourns the death of Prince Philip
LONDON, UK: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, passed away on Friday at the age of 99. Over the course of his long life, the prince was a supporter of many ...
BDA: “Scotland’s huge oral health inequalities cannot be allowed to widen”
EDINBURGH, UK: The havoc wreaked by the COVID-19 pandemic across the world has meant that patient attendance levels at dental practices have dropped quite ...
NHS dental activity targets continue to attract controversy
LONDON, UK: Since being implemented on 1 January, the UK government’s new system of NHS targets has drawn its fair share of detractors from both inside ...
Dwindling patient numbers leave UK clinics short of lockdown targets
LONDON, UK: The British Dental Association (BDA) warned in early January that hundreds of dental practices would be put out of business if the government ...
UK dentists expect drop in earnings, patient numbers in 2021
LONDON, UK: A new report commissioned by the General Dental Council (GDC) has found that UK dental professionals are pessimistic about being able to meet ...
Dentists join queue for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
LEIPZIG, Germany: UK health authorities have administered the first doses of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and public health ...
Dental patient charges increase by 5% in UK, causing uproar
LONDON, UK: Though practices in the UK remain open as the country goes through its second lockdown of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, dentists appear to be facing ...
UK dentists need peace of mind on PPE and COVID-19 complaints
LONDON, UK: Practices in the UK remain open during the current lockdown, but dentists in the country have reported increased concerns related to other ...
Jump in prescriptions by dentists during lockdown stokes fear of antibiotic resistance
LONDON, UK: According to a new study, dentists in England wrote 25% more prescriptions for antibiotics between April and July 2020 than they did during the ...
Fallow time calculator launched after AGP review
LONDON, UK: A review of the evidence relating to the use of aerosol-generating procedures (AGPs) and the risk that they pose for the transmission of ...
Millions of missed appointments: UK dentistry feels heat from COVID-19
NORTHAMPTON, UK: Since mid-June, dental clinics across the UK have faced a staggered resumption of elective dental care after the easing of a ...
Interview: Prof. Richard Watt on COVID-19 and the potential for dental reform
Though the spread of SARS-CoV-2 has had an undeniably deleterious effect on many elements of the dental world, it has also opened up new possibilities for ...
Could the UK have fared better managing COVID-19 outbreak?
LONDON, UK: Though the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, it has been going on long enough for certain lessons to have been gleaned from the way in which ...