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Chaps would you have your teeth or your boobs done first?

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Now will all dentists believe that lots of folk would like the opportunity to have better looking teeth?
It’s your responsibility to offer them the choice, isn’t it?
From the BBC website.
Male breast op numbers ‘growing fastest’
Surgery to correct ‘man-boobs’ is increasingly popular
Breast reduction for men is the fastest-growing part of the cosmetic surgery industry for the [...]

BDJ Editorial – Well Said Stephen Hancocks

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

These are strange times in Dentistry. Government apparatchiks have dabbled with NHS dentistry since 1990 and none of their changes have improved much, if anything, for the poor patient. Persistent interference and change has led to a dental work force that is low on morale, and even lower in confidence in politicians. Since 1997 there [...]

Imagine – The Brave New World of NHS Orthodontics

Friday, November 13th, 2009

A posting from Ortho-UK.
Imagine
Imagine you work for a PCT that feels the need to impose a central referral service without running it past the MCN the OHAG or any other orthodontic representative body.
Imagine the first you hear about it is when a circular comes round advising all dentists that all referrals must be made to [...]

Should we pay more for dentistry?

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Interesting piece by Prof Jimmy Steele on the BBC website.
Professor Jimmy Steele, author of the Government’s last dental review, says the over 40s are straining the NHS dentistry budget.
Many of the complex procedures they want, like root canal and crowns, are not really “needed” and higher patient charges may allow the NHS to provide a [...]

Let Richard Charon (the RA coach) teach you to extend the services you offer

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

A session with The RA Coach is coming your way! (If you’re in the North East that is.)
Having successfully provided hands on training days in his own practice in Newbury and across the Irish Sea in Wexford and Dublin since 2003, Richard Charon is presenting a one-day course in Relative Analgesia / Inhalational Sedation in [...]

Why ‘Quality Care’ is dangerous

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Interesting piece from The Wall Street Journal
Why ‘Quality’ Care Is Dangerous
The growing number of rigid protocols meant to guide doctors have perverse consequences.
By JEROME GROOPMAN and PAMELA HARTZBAND
The Obama administration is working with Congress to mandate that all Medicare payments be tied to “quality metrics.” But an analysis of this drive for better health care [...]

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Good piece from Harvard Business Review by Jim Heskett. I particularly enjoyed the reasoned and balanced opinions that follow.
Read it here: hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6245.html

Oral Cancer Rates Up – but is the real truth hard to swallow?

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

There have been a lot of mentions in the media over the past 10 days that the rates of Oral Cancer have risen in individuals in their 40s.
When I was a student & during my hospital career we were told that Oral & Lip Cancers were related to the “5Ss”:

Smoking,
Spirits,
Sepsis,
Sunshine
Syphilis.

Of these without doubt the greatest [...]

Why Bother Having Expert Advisors?

Monday, August 17th, 2009

A report in today’s Guardian concerning the free availability of anti-virals to treat the symptoms of swine ‘flu.
Before I left for my holiday in Ireland in mid July it seemed that the population was going to succumb to this dread plague but in the nick of time Gordon and his chums had come to the [...]

The Celtic Tiger loses its bite

Monday, July 20th, 2009

19.07.2009
Irish dentists ’shocked’ over report’s recommendations
The Irish dental community is “shocked” at the changes recommended in a report released this week by the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes, according to the Irish Dental Association (IDA).
Overall, “The Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes Volume II” (also [...]