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• Drip feeding your pension: could small, regular contributions make a big difference?
  Pension planning doesn’t have to be a year-end scramble – for dentists, regular drip feeding contributions could offer a more manageable way to balance cash flow, tax allowances and long-term retirement goals. When you’re busy caring for patients, running a practice and managing the day-to-day demands of dentistry, pension planning can easily become something you’ll…
• Dentistry Live: Sports dentistry: powered by Curodont
  Join Mide Ojo on 24 September at 7pm for a live clinical demonstration exploring the assessment, diagnosis and micro-invasive management of a patient with sports-related oral health challenges. Through a real-time patient consultation and treatment demonstration, delegates will observe how contemporary regenerative treatment approaches can be used to manage early enamel lesions while preserving natural…
• Fitness to practise whistleblowing rises by 74%
  The General Dental Council (GDC) has reported 138 whistleblowing disclosures relating to dentistry in the past year, a 74% increase on the previous reporting period, with every report resulting in a fitness to practise case being opened. Between 1 April 2025 and 31 March 2026, most disclosures came from dental professionals, while anonymous reports more…
• GDC to develop rules for ethical AI use in healthcare
  The General Dental Council (GDC) has joined a group of regulators in pledging to create a set of ‘high-level principles’ to guide regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) use in the healthcare. In a joint statement of intent, UK healthcare regulators representing sectors such as dentistry, medicine, nursing and midwifery and social work acknowledged that AI…
• BDA rejects incremental ADG reform call amid NHS dentistry crisis
  The British Dental Association (BDA) slapped down calls from the Association of Dental Groups (ADG) for incremental NHS dental contract reform as it met the new dentistry minister to spell out the bleak future facing the service without radical change. BDA chair Eddie Crouch said: ‘You will struggle to find a dentist in this country…