ISSUE 2, VOL.3
Job security? Editor’s desk
with Bruce Oxley
A survey of more than 300 dentists has raised the alarming possibility that as many as 1,000 jobs may be lost in the dental industry in the coming year (see news, page 7). Since the demise of the Celtic Tiger, the Irish Dental Association (IDA) has regularly highlighted the severe cutbacks to the medical card and PRSI schemes, and how they will and are affecting the oral health of the population. But this survey now shows the effect
these cuts are having on dental professionals, which in turn will yet again see patient care suffer further.
While Ireland has long seen dental professionals leave to work in the UK, Europe and the US to further their careers, many returned to these shores to work in or set up in practice later on. However, if this acceleration in the brain drain continues – the IDA reckons 2,000 jobs have already been lost in the last two years – then what incentives
Contents
NEWS> 05 Opinion:
Dr John Barry
07 Survey warns of 1,000 job losses
07 Research recommends fluoride policy change
08 Cork achieves Healthy City status
10 Cancer risk for Barrett’s patients
10 New code of practice welcomed
12 HSE underspend is an ‘outrage’
12 Negligence case thrown out
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FEATURES> 14 Prospering in a recession – Ashley Latter on how to survive the downturn
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will there be for these valuable professionals to return? And what sort of industry will there be to return to?
The oral health of the nation is already suffering and, if these job cuts are realised, then a whole generation could be facing a painful future, both patients and dental professionals alike.
® Bruce Oxley is editor of Ireland’s Dental magazine. To contact Bruce, email
bruce@connectcommunications.co.uk
IRELAND’S DENTAL MAGAZINE March/April 2011
CLINICAL> 19 The advantages and disadvantages of MOD onlay preparations
25 Rotary endodontic systems
31 Good handling and predictable results
35 Moving with the times, by Ian Buckle
41 Practice profile – Number 16 Periodontics
PRODUCT NEWS> 45 All the latest products and services
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