Over-servicing is an issue across health care, including in dentistry. Alexander Holden, Senior Lecturer in Dental Ethics at the University of Sydney, reports below on a study that included... Read more
Talking Teeth: Strengthening Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture in dental and oral health
Introduction by Croakey: The latest instalment of the #TalkingTeeth series of articles focusing on oral health follows the theme on advancing outcomes in oral health for Australians left out... Read more
The dramatic decline in dental decay in developed nations may be one of the great public health success stories this century, but how exactly has it been achieved? In the latest installment... Read more
The team at #TalkingTeeth in April are raising the issues of registration and health care workers. Dental assistants are the largest group of people working in dental practice. They underta... Read more
Readers who have followed the #TalkingTeeth series at Croakey can now access a compilation of these articles in a new, 28-page monograph. It was recently published by Professors Marc Tennant... Read more
When it comes to questions of life, death, or lotto, what would you consider reasonable odds? Countless numbers continue buying Powerball tickets despite the chances of a jackpot being vanis... Read more
The team at #TalkingTeeth started the year with an article discussing the issues of item number driven care. A clear problem in dentistry, but obviously spans across health too. Today, the... Read more
Almost everyone would agree that decisions about health funding and service delivery should be based on robust data. However, there are many areas of health care where data is not being used... Read more
The National Oral Health Alliance (NOHA) last week welcomed news from Health Minister Greg Hunt that the two year cap for subsidised services under the Child Dental Benefits Scheme (CDBS) wo... Read more
An audit is examining whether Victorian health services have been deliberately manipulating elective surgery waiting lists, according to news that broke just before Christmas. Whatever the f... Read more
