Letters to the Editor

Dear Sir,

I noted the comments in last month’s Apolline with interest. Your anonymous columnist was concerned that Denplan had failed to provide professional leadership for private practice in the face of on-going challenges from the NHS.

I believe that over the years, Denplan has done a huge amount to both inspire and inform the profession, both after the disaster that was the 1990 ‘new’ contract and the years of managed financial decline that followed, and also in advance of – and since – the 2006 contract which even its protagonists now admit has failed. We continue to provide information and quality support, and to encourage training and development, to over 7,000 dentists throughout the UK.

Denplan was constituted not as a professional representative body, but as a means to offer support and services to its member dentists and to facilitate the provision of preventively-based quality private dental care for their patients.