Tipton Training – one of the UK’s leading dental academies – has announced a new partnership with renowned online learning provider, Healthcare Learning.
The Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) (FGDP(UK)) has published a new edition of its Training Standards For Implant Dentistry, the first such new edition since 2012.
An employment tribunal has ruled in a test case brought by two Uber workers, backed by the GMB union, that they are not self employed as Uber previously claimed. Not surprisingly, this has caused...
UK wide dental defence organisation, MDDUS, is reminding dentists that it is now a GDC requirement to have appropriate full indemnity in place as part of the annual retention fee (ARF) renewal...
Many survivors of mouth cancer are forced to live with debilitating physical problems which affect basic daily things that many of us take for granted, such as the ability to speak, eat, drink and...
From autumn 2016, nursery practitioner students will be offered an accredited work based training qualification in oral health as a result of partnership working between South Lanarkshire College, NHS...
The British Dental Association is pleased to see children’s dental health in Scotland improve by 24 per cent since 2000, with new data that shows more than two thirds (69 per cent) of five year olds...
The most recent review of the General Dental Council (GDC) by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) has demonstrated a significant improvement against the Standards of Good Regulation.
Due to the advent of websites offering DIY orthodontic aligner treatments, there have been instances of dentists being asked to provide IPR for people who they have not diagnosed or previously...
On September 3, Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom announced the Government’s plan to ban microbeads from personal care products, including toothpastes; a consultation period is now underway and...
Jane Innes-Rees, a retired dentist from Kenilworth, has helped professionals in Ethiopia set up a university dental unit and clinics in rural areas of Tigray, one of the worst affected areas hit by...
The three winners of the Young Dentist Endodontic Award in 2016 have been described by the judges as rising stars of dentistry. Jasneet Gulati, David Bretton and Satnam Singh Virdee, all aged 26,...