Dental Care - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The HIV positive dentist in the United Kingdom--a legal perspective.

23 Jul 2009 In 1991, the United Kingdom Advisory Panel (UKAP) was set up under the aegis of the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (EAGA) to consider individual cases of HIV infected healthcare workers. Policy and guidance relating to HIV infected healthcare workers ... Read more...

An introduction to oral health care reform.

29 Jun 2009 Oral health care reform is made up of several components, but access to care is central. Health care reform will occur in some fashion at some point, and how it will impact the entire dental sector is unclear. In the short term, there is likely to ... Read more...

Practitioners' perspectives and experiences of the new National Health Service dental contract.

22 Apr 2009 BACKGROUND: In April 2006, fundamental changes were made to the arrangements for commissioning state funded (National Health Service, NHS) dental care in England and Wales. These involved the dissolution of a universal national contract and the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Dental Care - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The HIV positive dentist in the United Kingdom--a legal perspective. 23 Jul 2009
• An introduction to oral health care reform. 29 Jun 2009
• Community-level care a health safety net. 30 May 2009
• Practitioners' perspectives and experiences of the new National Health Service dental contract. 22 Apr 2009
• The sad truth about patient waivers of malpractice liability. 30 Mar 2009
• Dentistry and health care reform in the USA. 27 Feb 2009
• The disabled and disability insurance: an introduction to legal and claim assessment issues. 30 Dec 2008
• What is patient abandonment? 30 Dec 2008
• Private dentistry to be regulated in Wales. 11 Dec 2008
• Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS); voluntary disenrollment from the TRICARE Retiree Dental Program (TRDP). Final rule. 7 Oct 2008
• Dental care--provision of one-time outpatient dental care for certain veterans. Final rule. 6 Oct 2008
• Democracy in action: the House of Commons Health Committee's inquiry into Dental Services in England. 29 Sep 2008
• New technologies in health care. Part 2: A legal and professional dilemma. 30 Aug 2008
• Federal employees dental and vision insurance program. Final rule. 24 Aug 2008
• What every dentist should know: a guide to New York's Dental Practice Act. 30 Jul 2008
• Justice, dentistry and American democracy. 30 Jul 2008
• A tangled web. 29 Jun 2008
• America Dental Association 15th district trustee's address to the Texas Dental Association House of Delegates, May 3, 2008. 30 May 2008
• Dental negligence--the legal perspective revisited. 30 May 2008
• More about March editorial. 30 May 2008

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Technical information about 'Dental Care'

Definition: The total of dental diagnostic, preventive, and restorative services provided to meet the needs of a patient (from Illustrated Dictionary of Dentistry, 1982).

Descriptor UI: D003729

Alternative terms: Dental Care; Care, Dental;

Related Mesh Headings: Comprehensive Dental Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; history; instrumentation; manpower; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration;

Tree Number: E06.170; N02.421.240.190;

History Note: 73

Technical Notes: = professional care by a professional; ORAL HYGIENE = personal care by the subject himself; do not confuse with DENTISTRY: DENTISTRY is the dentist & the profession, DENTAL CARE is the patient & the care given him; GEN only: do not confuse with TOOTH DISEASES; DF: DENT CARE