Reportedly, services may not always include a face-to-face consultation with a dental professional authorised to provide direct services to patients – a principle that forms the basis of sound clinical judgement.
The GDC issued a statement today, reading: 'As part of our statutory objective to protect the public, we continually monitor new developments in the dental sector. We are aware of a number of organisations offering services remotely which could constitute dentistry as defined in law, including the growth in ‘direct-to-consumer orthodontics’.
'Orthodontic work is a sub-speciality of dentistry, primarily concerned with disturbances of the positions of the teeth (malocclusion) and the jaws that support them. Orthodontic treatment is how these problems are managed.
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