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'Difficult and challenging time' for dental patients

In spite of Department of Health advice that dentists must ‘prioritise patients on the basis of clinical need rather than registration status’, people in the city are still finding it extremely difficult to access NHS dental treatment. Derry Now was ...

08 Aug 2022 at 19:33

Bupa Dental Care to cut 85 practices in a move affecting 1,200 staff

Bupa Dental Care is set to cut 85 dental practices in a move that will affect 1,200 staff across the UK, amid a national shortage of dentists and “systemic” challenges across the industry. The healthcare group said patients at the affected ...

29 Mar 2023 at 06:00

Dental tourism: 6% of adults say they have travelled abroad for care

One in 20 UK adults sought dental care outside of the UK in the last year, a new poll suggests. The cost of treatments in the UK was the main reason cited by the 6% of adults who decided to travel abroad for care, according to a new ...

01 Aug 2024 at 11:00

A quarter of adults have delayed dental treatment ‘because of the cost’

A quarter of adults have delayed dental care or treatment because of the cost, according to a large survey. One in three also said the cost of dentistry has affected the type of care or treatment they go on to have. The poll ...

25 Jan 2024 at 16:06

Dentists to get cash for new patients and ‘golden hellos’ under service plans

Dentists are to be offered cash to take on new patients and given £20,000 “golden hellos” to work in communities with a lack of NHS dental services under plans to boost dentistry across England. Around a million people who ...

07 Feb 2024 at 17:35

Scotland

No crisis in NHS dentistry despite ‘difficulties’, insists minister

A minister has denied that NHS dentistry in Scotland is in crisis, though she conceded it faces a “number of difficulties”. Jenni Minto said improvements have been made in a relatively short period of time. In March, it ...

10 May 2023 at 15:59

Health & Wellbeing

New warnings about ‘concerning’ rise in at-home cosmetic dentistry

There has been a 116% increase in DIY cosmetic dentistry over the past five years, new research has found, with social media driving up demand. Bupa Dental Care found that 20% of people who have attempted at-home ...

26 Jul 2023 at 14:20

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Offaly primary school children 'will be in transition year before accessing dental care'

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll-MacNeill has been called on to intervene with the HSE to ensure that there is increased sense of urgency around the recruitment of dental surgeons in Offaly who will provide ...

04 Mar 2025 at 13:33

Amount of five-year-olds with rotting teeth rising in parts of England – data

The proportion of five-year-olds with rotting teeth is rising in the North East, London and the South West, figures show. Official data shows as many as six in 10 children in some areas have rotting teeth by ...

11 Feb 2025 at 17:28

NHS dentistry is ‘very weak’, top official admits

NHS dentistry is “very weak”, England’s chief medical officer has said as he warned that a lack of access to dentistry for children can set them up for a “lifelong poor dental health”. Professor Sir Chris ...

13 Feb 2025 at 14:23

Water fluoridation ‘less effective’ than in the past – study

Adding fluoride to drinking water may be less effective now than it was in the past, according to a major review. The benefits of fluoridating water supplies appear to have declined since the 1970s when ...

04 Oct 2024 at 01:00

Ireland

‘Unacceptable’ that autistic boy faced 10-year wait for dental care – Taoiseach

It is “unacceptable” that a six-year-old autistic boy was told he could be waiting up to 10 years for urgent dental care, the Taoiseach has said . The case of Tiernan Power Murphy from Co Waterford was ...

26 Feb 2025 at 13:55

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