Award winners announced
{my}dentist has announced the 15 winners of its annual Excellence Awards which celebrate its teams and individuals across the UK.
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Running for cleft charity
Consultant cleft and maxillofacial surgeon Vicky Beale completed the London Marathon in an amazing personal best of just three hours and 59 minutes – and, she has more than doubled her fundraising target for the Cleft Lip and Palate Association (CLAPA).
GDC chair and council member
Planned changes to the membership of the GDC council take effect from today, Friday October 1. Angie Heilmann MBE joins the council as a registrant member, and Lord Toby Harris joins as chair.
Scottish Covid-19 inquiry
Dental professionals must receive better support for their physical, emotional and financial wellbeing in a future pandemic situation, to ensure patients continue to get the best possible care and treatment and avoid long-term impacts on the profession.
Smiles at Sea back on tour
Fisherfolk and their families are being offered free dental checks, emergency treatment and oral cancer screening in four fishing ports across Cornwall and Devon next week thanks to Smile Together Dental CIC. The treatment will relieve any immediate dental problems including simple tooth extraction, permanent fillings and scale and polish with referrals through NHS routes where more complex oral surgery is required.
Campaign to combat tooth decay
Aquafresh has launched a new campaign to help educate both parents and children on the importance of good oral health. The new Shine Bright campaign will include a partnership with Tesco, a school programme and influencer partnerships, all of which will aim to educate and encourage better oral health amongst children to prevent rising tooth decay.
Racism in the GDC
The British Dental Association has called on the General Dental Council (GDC) to ensure it offers meaningful protection to all registrants, following the suspension of a practice committee member for making racially motivated comments.
CMO statement on CWF
The British Fluoridation Society (BFS) has officially welcomed the UK chief medical officers (CMOs) statement confirming that water fluoridation is an effective public health intervention for reducing the prevalence of tooth decay and improving oral health inequalities across the UK.
Clinical negligence costs
The Health and Social Care Committee has launched a new inquiry to examine the case for the reform of NHS litigation against a background of a significant increase in costs.
Child neglect training
A training programme in child protection which includes dental neglect as a core component is being rolled out across the South Yorkshire Police force from today. Thousands of police officers in the region, as well as support staff and other stakeholders, are being taught to understand why a lack of dental care is potentially a neglect issue and what actions they should take when they have concerns.
NHS dentistry update
Sara Hurley, chief dental officer for England, released a new bulletin on September 21. It covers the Delivering Better Oral Health toolkit, the Advancing Dental Care review report and patient exemption checking.
Recycling dental product waste
TerraCycle’s Oral Care Waste and Packaging Zero Waste Box allows dental practices to offer staff and patients a recycling solution for their used toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and more.
New DIY dentistry campaign
The British Orthodontic Society and the Oral Health Foundation has launched a new campaign to help patients make safer choices when it comes to their dental treatment.
Recruitment and retention
The impact of the pandemic and Brexit has created one of the biggest challenges facing NHS dentistry to date: a staff recruitment and retention crisis. With a surge of clinicians and the wider dental team feeling disillusioned with the profession, and in some cases leaving dentistry altogether for a less pressurised job, many NHS dental practices are experiencing high staff turnover and a lower than ever response rate to their recruitment advertising, which is only serving to deepen NHS dentistry access problems.
NI Health Service dentistry
The British Dental Association NI and 500 high street dentists have written to Health Minister Robin Swann to call time on the dire situation facing Health Service dentistry, urging the Department of Health to set out tangible solutions to overhaul the decades-old General Dental Services (GDS) contract.
