What's new with the GDC?
Last year the GDC launched an updated set of standards for dental professionals. MDDUS dental adviser Claire Renton offers a quick low-down on what’s now expected
The public dentist
Protecting and improving society’s oral health is at the heart of a career in dental public health
Retained roots - dental case study
Dental case study
Needle breakage
MDDUS adviser Mike Williams offers some tips on dealing with this rare but distressing complication
Call of the wild
Intrepid dentist Penelope Granger has practised everywhere from the extremes of Antarctica to the world’s remotest island in the south Atlantic
Dealing with dentures
They may not be ideal but dentures are the only option for many patients. Doug Hamilton offers some hints on managing expectations and more
The Olympic ideal
Like athletes, dentists are often seen as role models in society. But are they more ethical than our sporting heroes?
Not just an academic exercise
Claire Renton suggests how dental audit can be more than just a box-ticking exercise
Devil is in the detail of lab slips for dentists
Dentists in Scotland who fail to complete laboratory slips accurately risk a loss of earnings and even allegations of fraud, says dental defence organisation MDDUS.
Graduates should be fully registered doctors, report says
TRAINEES should be fully registered as doctors when they graduate from medical school rather than at the end of their first year of foundation training, according to an ambitious new report.