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Full re-start of the Overseas Registration Exam announced

The General Dental Council (GDC) has recently announced the full re-starting of Parts 1 and 2 of the Overseas Registration Exam (ORE), following its suspension in March 2020 due to Covid-19.

UK not even in top 10 European countries for dental hygiene, new study finds

According to a new study, people in Ireland, Lithuania and Azerbaijan all take better care of their teeth than Brits.

Importance of engagement and legal representation in fitness to practise highlighted in new research on seriousness

Cross-regulatory research to understand how the concept of seriousness is understood and applied by UK healthcare regulators in their fitness to practice work was published recently.

Dentists’ Provident paid 98.9 per cent of new claims in 2021

Dentists’ Provident, a leading income protection provider for the dental industry, has paid out £5.4m to members in 2021, their latest figures show.

Dental practices benefitting from revenue-based finance

365 Business Finance, a London-based lender to SMEs in the UK, has revealed that there was a significant rise last year in the number of merchant cash advances taken out by businesses in the...

On the up

A look at the benefits increasing fees offers private practices.

Time to look at your investments

Richard Lishman considers how best to manage a portfolio.

Considerations for paediatric dentistry

Nimisha Nariapara explores the care of younger patients.

Representing therapists

Debbie Hemmington looks back over the 60-year history of the BADT.

Less antibiotic use in dentistry gave no increase in endocarditis, study finds

Sweden is one of the few countries that have removed the dental health recommendation to give prophylactic antibiotics to people at a higher risk of infection of the heart valves, so-called infective...

Dentist remains suspended over fraud allegations

Fariba Shameli, a dentist at Findon Dental Care in Worthing, was served with an 18-month suspension in July 2021 after an investigation by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority, which led to her being...

Man turned away from dentist after being attacked on a night out

Alexander Shaban had been a patient at Cheddar Dental Practice all his life, but when he desperately needed treatment, he was turned away.

British tourist reunited with false teeth he lost in Spain 11 years ago

Paul Bishop, now 63, lost his false teeth whilst vomiting in a bin after a big night out in Benidorm in 2011.

Dental practices rebranded under Dental Scotland

A large Scottish dental chain has rebranded. 

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