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Bleaching and Tooth Whitening by DCPs
A summary of the rules on tooth whitening by dental care professionals. This should be read in conjunction with the Position Statement on Tooth Whitening which was updated 28 February 2013.
29 Mar, 2018
Enhanced CPD
Changes to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for all dental registrants start in 2018.
26 Oct, 2017
Dental Protection: Legal reform to tackle rising cost of clinical negligence is long overdue
In a survey of over 1500 dentists, 94 percent said they feel it has become easier to bring a claim for clinical negligence than ever before and 90 percent said they are increasingly fearful of being sued. 87 percent said they support changes to the legal system to tackle the rising cost of clinical negligence.
22 Jun, 2017
Dental Protection welcomes GDC proposals to modernise FTP procedures
Dental Protection has welcomed the General Dental Council’s (GDC) commitment to provide greater clarity on how and when it will use its formal Fitness to Practise enforcement powers as a solution to managing serious risk to patients.
2 Feb, 2017
Dental Protection successful in Judicial Review against the GDC
A Judicial Review brought by Dental Protection has found that the General Dental Council (GDC) was wrong to deny a dental practitioner the right of review after receiving an unpublished warning.1
23 Dec, 2016