DT News - UK - National standards for implant dentistry announced

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Fri. 1 December 2017

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LONDON, UK: National standards for implant dentistry will be released by late next year, the Faculty of General Dental Practice UK (FGDP(UK)) has said. According to the association, the evidence-graded recommendations will be categorised using its “ABC” (aspirational, basic, conditional) notation and allow dentists to optimise their quality of patient care and reduce variation in treatment outcomes.

Developed by Prof. Cemal Ucer and Drs Simon Wright and Andrew Shelley from Manchester, the guidelines will be subject to consultation before release. They are anticipated to be finally available to the profession in the second half of 2018.

“Delivery of satisfactory dental implant treatment, and its long-term success and maintenance, requires complex and invasive surgical and restorative procedures using a variety of highly specialised products, biomaterials and equipment. Constantly emerging new materials, techniques and treatment modalities can give rise to variance in the standard of treatment between practitioners and institutions,” said Ucer, who is one of the directors of the Implant Centres of Excellence Postgraduate Dental Institute and Hospital and a former President of the Association of Dental Implantology. “Based on a systematic review of the evidence and critical appraisal of the benefits and harms of all treatment options, our best practice guidelines should be seen to set national standards on how patients who are candidates for dental implant treatment should be assessed and treated.”

Dean of the FGDP(UK) Dr Mick Horton commented that, while standards have been agreed on by the profession since 2008 and a range of clinical guides are available, there is recognition that national standards for the benefit of patients have to be established.

“Implant dentistry is one of the most significant advances in oral healthcare of the last 30 years, and is now routinely available, and an increasingly popular treatment from which thousands of patients are benefitting every year. I would like to thank Professor Ucer and his team on behalf of the Faculty for their ongoing work,” he said.

The FGDP(UK) already publishes Training Standards in Implant Dentistry, which is used by the General Dental Council to define the training that should be undertaken to carry out implant dentistry in the UK and the standards that training courses should meet.

It also offers the FGDP(UK) Diploma in Implant Dentistry, which has been awarded to almost 600 students in London, Leeds and Hong Kong since 2003.

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