News
10 July 2013
It is important that any new dental contract in England must work for dental practices and support their functioning as businesses; Health Minister Earl Howe stressed at a meeting of MPs at Westminster this week (10 July 2013).
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30 October 2012
On the eve of new laws on tooth whitening coming into force in the UK, a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dentistry heard of the damage that can be done when the procedure is carried out by non-dentists, and what impact the new laws are likely to have.
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14 February 2012
The UK could cope with a phase down of the use of dental amalgam in the longer term, but not in the immediate future, a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Dentistry has been told.
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25 October 2011
Patients want to be confident that dental disease will not impair their quality of life, but that means different things to different people, Professor Jimmy Steele told a meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Dentistry today.
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14 June 2011
Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Dentistry, Sir Paul Beresford, has challenged fellow MPs to visit their local salaried dental services to see for themselves the work community dentists are doing.
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10 March 2011
A visit today to King’s College London Dental Institute (KCLDI) has highlighted to Parliamentarians the role played by the UK’s dental schools.
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