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Leading voices in oral health strengthen consensus on biofilm management

  As dental plaque biofilm-driven oral diseases continue to place avoidable burdens on patients and healthcare systems, a collective of UK oral health leaders gathered in London on 18 July 2025 to... Read More

BSPD building ‘Foundations for the Future’ at 2025 London conference 

BSPD saw members gather on 11th and 12th September in their hundreds at the Society’s Annual Scientific Conference at the Royal College of Music in London’s South Kensington, which focused this year... Read More

New GDC Scope of Practice guidance set to empower dental hygienists and dental therapists

The British Society of Dental Hygiene & Therapy (BSDHT) has welcomed the General Dental Council’s (GDC) revised Scope of Practice guidance, published earlier this week. The society was actively... Read More

Over two million toothbrush packs delivered to school children as the UK Governments Partnership with Colgate-Palmolive begins

More than two million toothbrushes and toothpastes have been delivered to the most deprived areas of England, and military families overseas, so 3 to 5-year-olds in early years settings are supported... Read More

GDC publishes revised Scope of Practice guidance

16th September 2025 The GDC have today published our revised Scope of Practice guidance after a comprehensive review and collaboration with dental professionals, education providers, indemnifiers,... Read More

BSPD welcomes supervised toothbrushing roll-out 

The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD), the national society dedicated to improving the oral health of children from birth to 16, welcomes today’s news of the good progress being made to... Read More