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Around the table: Margaret Ross
Senior lecturer for dental care professionals and programme director of the BSc Oral Health Sciences programme at the University of Edinburgh.
Martin Leca
Owner of Leca Dental Laboratory, Hillington, Glasgow. Qualified, GDC-registered dental technician.
Helen Kaney
Direct Access, he wasn’t convinced it provided the “gold standard” for patient care. He added: “I think to control things for a perfect patient journey, you could have Direct Access, but I’d prefer it all within one practice. “So, it is all treatment planned from the
dentist to a certain extent and somebody can monitor things, ultimately be in control and make sure that the quality is controlled in house.” He revealed that he has worked with
fellow Round Table panellist Robert Leggett and had a very positive experi- ence of his CDT practice: “I do feel it can work very well where patients – who might not have come to see a dentist in the first place – can see Robert, and it has opened up avenues where they have been accepting to other types of treatment.” However, he insisted that it would
be preferable if Robert’s position was inside a bigger practice where “he has also got the support network of the practice around him, and he doesn’t feel so isolated and remote”. Lorraine took issue with Stuart’s
implication that dentists should always oversee the work that DCPs carry out. She said: “I think that is undermining
to us, as a profession, that you have to oversee any treatment which has been carried out by us to make sure it is of
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Dually-qualified dentist and solicitor, now dento-legal adviser for Dental Protection, based in the Edinburgh office.
Robert Leggett
Clinical dental technician, studied on the first UK course in 2009. Owner of Scottish Denture Clinic, with practices in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Stuart Lutton
Sheffield graduate, former owner of Ivy Dental Practice, now dental associate at Ivy Dental.
Carol Clark
Dental hygienist, qualified in 1981. Works in two Direct Access practices, one in Perth and one in Dundee.
Lorraine Keith
Hygienist/therapist, qualified in 1995 in hygiene and 2006 in dental therapy. Outreach tutor in a large facility in Coatbridge and also an associate lecturer for Glasgow Caledonian University.
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