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Practice Purchase – Avoiding the Pitfalls

Aug 26th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Latest Update

Buying a dental practice – the do’s and dont’s



GDC Launches Revalidation Consultation

Oct 22nd, 2010 | By | Category: Dental Workers, Latest Update

The General Dental Council (GDC) has opened its new 12 week consultation into revalidation. The aim of the revalidation is to provide a way of checking that dentists continue to meet GDC. The issue that the GDC’s Fitness to Practise proceedings has had in the past is that it is assumed dental professionals are continuing [...]



New Coalition Government To Review Its Dental Inheritance

Jul 1st, 2010 | By | Category: Dental Politics, Latest Update

The new dentistry minister (the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health with responsibility for dentistry) has confirmed that the government will review the details of the NHS dental system which was inherited from the previous government. Mr Howe also confirmed that the government’s proposed reforms will be declared once they have talked to the profession [...]



Laser Tests to replace Dentists Drill?

Sep 8th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Latest Update

At the University of Sydney scientists have worked on laser tests to identify weaknesses in dental enamel, which may at some point in the near future make the dentists drill a thing of the past. Currently, X-rays and metal probes are used to check cavities, but they fail to detect weaknesses in the enamel in [...]