Mandatory covid vaccine adding to staff shortage fears
Ian Gordon, dental director at Riverdale Healthcare, has spoken to iNews regarding the mandate.
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New guidelines
New guidelines will not soften blow of Scottish government plans
With high levels of covid and other seasonal infections, and now the emergence ...
New covid guidelines
New covid guidelines unlikely to bring 'business as usual' back to dentistry
The new model places patients on two pathways, given the likelihood of them ...
GDC plans for improvement
GDC publishes stakeholder perceptions research and plans for improvement
The results indicate that overall perceptions of the GDC were more negative (58 ...
Mental health fundraiser
Hip-hop comes to dentistry in support of mental health
What may be the first ever hip-hop concert in a dental surgery took place on ...
Government rejects proposal
Government rejects proposal to protect ‘nurse’ title in UK
The clause stressed the move would not prevent any use of titles such as ...
'Toothless' campaign
‘Toothless’ campaign says people are resorting to “Dickensian” pain relief
Recently, Mark Jones, funder and spokesperson for the new group, appeared on ...
Not just a job
Not just a job
Rebecca Silver is a multi-award-winning dental nurse who was worked in both NHS ...
Expenditure on dental services
UK expenditure on dental services is forecast to increase by 15 per cent in 2021
Expenditure on dental services is estimated to have been £7.02bn in 2020, down ...
Dental practice scores its first century thanks to happy patients
100 five-star Google reviews
The practice in Kingston Road, Ewell, has notched up more than one hundred five-star reviews on Google, with nearly one quarter of patients mentioning their delight with their treatment result.
NHS dentistry and oral health update: patients with mental illness
NHS dentistry and oral health
They begin by sharing, “It is an unacceptable fact that people with mental ill health are disproportionately affected by poor oral health. The international evidence is pretty stark, with the impact being both indirect (people with severe and enduring mental illness experiencing poorer oral health as a result of delayed treatment, access issues etc) and direct (the harmful effect of some symptoms of mental illness affecting oral health such as self-induced vomiting):
Dental nurse training provider acquired
Dental nurse training provider
The acquisition will extend Learndirect’s existing portfolio of professional dental nursing e-learning courses and add a significant face-to-face training capacity which has until now been the cornerstone of our SmileWisdom offering.
Flavoured vapes less harmful to young people than smoking, and could help teen smokers quit
Flavoured vapes less harmful
A new study published recently looks at young peoples’ use of vape flavours, reporting the views and experiences of more than 500,000 under 18s.
NHS dentistry and oral health update – with a green focus
NHS update - green dentistry
In their opening address, they share, “As world leaders gather at COP26, one message is clear - the climate crisis is all our business.
England: mandatory Covid-19 vaccine for healthcare workers
Mandatory Covid-19 vaccine
The regulations, subject to parliamentary approval will come into force on April 1, 2022.
Can baby teeth be used to identify children at risk of mental health disorders later in life?
Baby teeth& mental health link
Senior author Erin C. Dunn, ScD, MPH, is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist and an investigator in MGH’s Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit. She studies the effects of childhood adversity, which research suggests is responsible for up to one-third of all mental health disorders.
London gets mobile dental clinic to support the capital’s most vulnerable residents
LDN gets mobile dental clinic
Launched by the charity Dentaid, in partnership with Bupa Dental Care, the mobile clinic offered free dental treatment for some of the most vulnerable people in our society.
UK dental group welcomes its 100th practice
Dentex welcomes 100th practice
Five years after partnering with its first practice, Dentex is celebrating a milestone achievement. The dental group has just welcomed the 100th practice into its dental community.
Local exhaust ventilation to control dental aerosols and droplets
Local exhaust ventilation
The study ‘Local Exhaust Ventilation to Control Dental Aerosols and Droplets’, published in the Journal of Dental Research (JDR), investigated the effect of a local exhaust ventilation (LEV) device on aerosols and droplets produced during dental procedures. These devices are designed to be placed over the patient’s mouth to capture aerosols and droplets at the source.
NASDAL DCby1 Practice of the Year Award 2022 launches
'Dental Check by One' award
The award seeks to recognise a practice that has successfully introduced the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD) Dental Check by One (DCby1) into their practice. The aim of the campaign is to increase the number of children who access dental care aged zero to two years.
