ISSUE 3, VOL.7
Editor’s desk A new hope?
with Bruce Oxley
After weeks of seemingly endless negotiations and horse trading, we finally have a new government in Leinster House.
With Fine Gael Taoiseach Enda Kenny re-elected, the dental community in Ireland could be forgiven for giving in to an unfamiliar bout of optimism. If this sensation fills you with unease, then I’ll explain quickly before you have to reach for the valium... Fine Gael, for all their faults, were the only party to
mention dentistry at all in their pre-election manifesto. Not only did they mention dentistry, but they promised to restore the Dental Treatment Benefit scheme as part of its PRSI reforms and to introduce preventive dentistry for medical care holders...
Now, the cynics out there will no doubt argue that manifesto promises don’t always come to pass, but it’s a start. It’s a recognition of the problem and that
Contents
NEWS> 05 Opinion with Tommy O’Malley
07 Health minister sets out 10-year vision
08 IDA calls for overhaul of medical card scheme
11 Plans to tackle diabetes epidemic
13 QUB is named top dental school in UK
COLUMN> 17 Making the transition from paper to PC can be tough
FEATURES> 19 Sean Malone on the 2016 RCSI ASM
23 Gender equality in dental committees
ADVERTISING FEATURES> 44 Driving dental innovation to your door
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49 Aesthetic restorations without bonding
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something needs to be done. Add this to the imminent new Dentist Act (how imminent, we are still waiting to find out) and the landscape for dentistry might be very different in a few months’ time. Whether that landscape turns out to be a positive new direction remains to be seen, but, like I say, it’s a start...
® Bruce Oxley is editor of Ireland’s Dental magazine. To contact Bruce, email
bruce@connectcommunications.co.uk
IRELAND’S DENTAL MAGAZINE June/July 2016
CLINICAL> 31 CBCT use in endodontics is rapidly increasing writes Brian Vaughan
39 Early diagnosis and intervention is crucial in tackling periodontal disease
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