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Supervised toothbrushing launched in UK schools

A national supervised toothbrushing programme will be rolled out for UK children aged three to five from April, the government has announced.

BDA and Government relationship hits the rocks

After the 2024 election there seemed to be smiles all round when senior BDA and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) representatives first met. Little more than six months later that seems a distant memory. Figures on both…

Two third of dental professionals ‘burnt out and exhausted’

Nearly two thirds (63%) of dental professionals are frequently burnt out and exhausted, while one in five (18%) describe their wellbeing as ‘of concern’. In addition, half (50%) of dental professionals feel under pressure to…

Government meeting less than 1/3 of unmet need for urgent care

Following a string of reports of DIY dentistry, and death – or near death – experiences from dental infections, we’ve found that government discovered demand for urgent care of 2.2 million but covered less than…

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Exclusive: care minister slates ‘Dickensian’ childhood extraction figures

Almost 50,000 children aged 0 to 19 had a tooth extraction in NHS hospitals last financial year, according to newly-released data. Read more

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

English dentists ‘walking away’ from NHS work as fees fail to cover costs

A growing “exodus” of dentists willing to provide care on the NHS threatens to exacerbate the crisis in patients’ access to treatment, the profession’s leaders have said. Read more