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• ORE booking system failure leaves applicants without a seat
  Dentists hoping to secure a spot to sit the Overseas Registration Exam (ORE) reported payment issues, errors and overloaded servers preventing them from completing the process. Accessing a place in ORE examinations has previously been compared to buying Glastonbury Festival tickets, with applicants flooding the General Dental Council’s (GDC) MyGDC portal as new dates are…
• High Court orders new sanction hearing in racist and sexualised comments case
  Warning: This story contains comments of a racist nature and references to sexual violence A High Court ruling has exposed conflicting positions within the GDC fitness to practise process after a dentist found to have made repeated sexualised and discriminatory comments to junior female colleagues and racist remarks was allowed to return to practice under…
• The cost of missed periodontitis: lessons from negligence claims
  Failure to diagnose or appropriately manage periodontitis remains one of the most common and highest value categories of dental negligence claims encountered in legal practice. In this article, Sabrina Mahmood, associate at Keoghs LLP, explores the key legal issues that frequently arise in such claims and outlines practical risk management strategies for dental practitioners. Why…
• How to ensure your dental practice retains its individuality when selling
  DeNovo Dental Partners explains why its innovative partnership model is the best option for those who want to retain a sense of individuality when considering selling their practice. In many areas of life, individuality is celebrated. People are encouraged to be themselves, while businesses are recognised for doing things differently, challenging convention and building something…
• Periodontitis outcomes: consensus, collaboration and co-operation
  Periodontitis remains a major global health challenge, says Varkha Rattu, but better outcomes depend on consensus in diagnosis, collaboration around referral and clear communication with patients. Periodontitis is the sixth most prevalent health condition globally. According to the Global Burden of Disease study (2017), severe periodontitis affects approximately 11% of the world’s population – around…