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Three in four adults are not regularly seeing a dentist

According to a new Haleon survey, three quarters of UK adults are not meeting the recommendation of seeing a dentist every 12-24 months.

Spending review: what does the dental profession think?

The UK chancellor has pledged to increase NHS funding by 3% in her latest spending review as she promises to ‘renew Britain’.

Plans for NHS dentistry in Wales could see 64% dentists go fully private

Patients in Wales could be offered treatment at any available practice within their area under new plans for NHS dentistry, sparking criticism from the profession.

Minister Cautious: LDCs Told - UDAs For Now

The annual LDC conference may have appeared to those delivering NHS care, as a triumph of hope over experience.

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Calls for next GDC chair to be a registrant

Representatives across the dental profession are calling for a registrant to be appointed as the next General Dental Council (GDC) chair. In an open letter to the regulator, associations and specialist societies urge that the next council chair ‘must be a registrant’. Read more

Do direct-to-consumer orthodontics have a place in dentistry?

Dentistry.co.uk explores the rise of direct-to-consumer orthodontics – what does the term mean, is it safe and does the dental profession support it? Read more

Half of gen Z NHS staff made ill by stress at work

More than half of the gen Z cohort aged 21 to 30 had been made ill by work-related stress in the past year, analysis of NHS staff surveys found. Read more

‘There could be no NHS dentists in two years’

A dentist says he feels "strangled" by NHS contracts and believes NHS dentists may not exist in two years' time. Read more

Three in four employees work while physically or mentally unable

Two thirds of people said they felt self-imposed pressure to continue working while ill in a survey of UK employees on the topic of workplace wellbeing. Read more

BDA elects new General Dental Practice Committee chair

‘A make or break moment for NHS dentistry’: Shiv Pabary has been elected the new chair of the British Dental Associations’s General Dental Practice Committee (GDPC). Read more