With almost 100 regulators, are there too many watchdogs in the State?
Some regulatory bodies believe their underpinning legislation has fallen behind advances and developments in the sectors they oversee
Dental Council
One Co Galway dentist accounts for 75% of complaints made to regulator over past four years
Dental Council received more than 1,500 phone calls about dentist, out of a total of more than 2,000
Irish Dental Association calls for powers to carry out investigations following RTÉ revelations
RTÉ Investigates documented how a person with a conviction for sexual assault was operating in Ireland as a dentist without being registered with Dental Council
Dental Council signs agreement with health watchdog to improve safety oversight
Memorandum of understanding formalises current and future co-operation between organisations
More medical and other health course places planned to address HSE staffing shortage
Stephen Donnelly calling for 120 extra medicine students this autumn letter obtained under Freedom of Information Act reveals
Dentistry: How technology is facilitating wider smiles
Strides in orthodontic wiring and digital imaging help both professionals and patients
Dentists adhering to new guidance can open next week
Guidance on infection control was published on Friday by State’s Health Protection Surveillance Centre
Coronavirus: Dental association warns of inevitable closure of dentists’ practices
Group seeks urgent meeting with Minister amid fears for vulnerable professionals
Coronavirus: Closure of dental practices inevitable, dentists warn
Irish Dental Association expresses concern at ‘lack of clear guidance’ over outbreak
Botox complaints include infections, blurred vision and haematoma
Dozens of incidents recorded in State in recent years, as Minister mulls legislation
Lack of transparency over dental complaints blamed on laws
Dentistry is unique in Ireland in that fitness-to-practise hearings are held in private
Dentist who persisted for too long trying to fit denture found guilty of misconduct
High court attaches conditions to registration of Dr Liam O’Droma over treatment of patient
Ireland ‘losing dentists’ over lack of specialist training
Dentists training to become specialists forced abroad, many never to return, says RCSI
Dentist supplied potentially harmful product to 12 patients, court hears
High court imposes conditions on registration of Mayo practitioner for supplying dangerous mouthwash
Audit to review more than 7,500 children’s dental work
Audit acts on allegations that children’s teeth were damaged by HSE orthodontic services
Use of mercury-based dental fillings to be phased out
Dentists will no longer use amalgam on teeth of children under 15 and pregnant women
Mail order dentistry at root of number of complaints
Companies selling kits by post often not even dentists, complaints resolution service says
Denture businesses treating patients in garden sheds
Dental technician body claims unregistered operators treat patients in dirty conditions
Loophole allows rogue providers of dentures put patients at risk
Authorities powerless to stop illegal operators who practice in dirty conditions
Iseult O’Malley to be appointed as Supreme Court judge
Richard Humphreys and Tony O’Connor nominated as judges of the High Court
Former Belfast consultant struck off dentists’ register
Prof Philip Lamey’s ‘failings fell so far below any acceptable standard of performance’
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