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| 02/03/10 |
Dental Care Pregnancy Alert |
| Health concerns after bacteria present in mother's mouth found in stillborn baby (Irish Times, Tuesday, March 2nd 2010) |
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| 22/02/10 |
GSK highlights health risk with use of its zinc-containing denture adhesives |
| GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has issued advice warning consumers about a potential health risk associated with long-term, excessive use of its zinc-containing denture adhesives Poligrip Ultra and Poligrip Total Care. |
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| 15/02/10 |
CSO Confirms Removal of PRSI Benefit Sole Cause of Rise in Dental Charges |
| The Central Statistics Office [CSO] has confirmed that the rise of 12.8% in dental charges reported in January's CPI figures arose entirely as a result of the Government's removal of PRSI benefits from dental treatments. |
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| 17/01/10 |
Meeting votes No Confidence in Government following over Euro110 million in cuts in supports for dental treatments. |
| Over 400 dentists from across the country met at a special meeting in Dublin today called to discuss the growing crisis for dental health care. |
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| 10/12/09 |
Dentists respond with shock and alarm to Budget cuts |
| The Irish Dental Association has warned that the Budget had effectively killed off the PRSI scheme for dental benefits for people at work despite the fact that millions of people have been paying the State every week for this 'insurance' for years. |
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| 09/12/09 |
Budget Slashes Spending on Dental Care |
| The main features of the Budget for 2010 as announced today and of direct significance for dentists are set out below. |
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| 07/12/09 |
New IDA Update Available to Download |
| The latest twelve-page edition of the IDA Update - featuring practice management advice and new services and benefits available exclusively to IDA members - is available to download in the members' section of the site. |
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| 03/12/09 |
Advice for dentists seeking swine flu vaccination |
| The HSE and the Department of Health and Children have issued advice for dentists who wish to be vaccinated against the swine flu virus. To download the guidance document please visit our swine flu section or click on the icon further down our homepage. |
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| 24/11/09 |
New study finds operating costs for dentists in the Republic over 100,000 euro greater than in Northern Ireland. |
| A study on the economics of dentistry which is due to be published shortly will show that operating costs for principal dentists in family practices in the Republic exceed those of their counterparts in Northern Ireland by over 102,000 euro a year. |
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| 19/11/09 |
Advice re National Public Sector Strike 24th November 2009 |
| Advice for PDS Members in relation to the National Public Sector Strike due to take place on 24th November 2009 is now available in the PDS Group Section of the IDA Members section. |
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| 06/11/09 |
IDA Pre-Budget Submission Presented to Government |
| Young children with Special Needs are being forced to wait up to 3 years to see a HSE Dentist because of the recruitment ban in the HSE according to the Irish Dental Association [IDA]. The Association has made a pre Budget submission to the Government which urges the lifting of the HSE moratorium on recruitment of Public Dental Surgeons in order to alleviate this crisis. |
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| 21/10/09 |
Advice to HSE Dentists re Swine Flu Vaccination |
| The Association has issued advice to members employed by the HSE who are being invited to participate in mass vaccination clinics associated with the A(H1N1) pandemic, available to view in the members page.
You may also download new guidance documents issued by the HSE on our homepage (right). |
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| 20/10/09 |
Letter to Editor, Irish Times re 'dental fraud' |
| Click here to see the text of a letter sent for publication to the Irish Times today in response to a report on 'dental fraud' contained in today's edition of the paper.
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| 10/10/09 |
Public Dental Surgeons hear of high rates of tooth decay amongst Irish children. |
| Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease of childhood and the level of tooth decay is higher amongst Irish children than those in the UK according to a leading researcher on oral health. |
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| 07/10/09 |
Dentists' protest to highlight plight of special needs children and adults |
| Public Dental Surgeons across the country are to be balloted to decide on taking protest action ['up to and including appropriate industrial action'] in the event that the HSE makes further unilateral changes to their terms and conditions of employment or undermines the standard of care available through the service to patients including special needs patients. |
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| 06/10/09 |
Incoming President of Public Dental Surgeons warns of crisis in services for special needs patients. |
| On the eve of their Annual Seminar, the incoming President of the Public Dental Surgeons, Dr Jane Renehan, has warned that there is a crisis in the delivery of basic dental services to children and adults with special needs. |
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| 28/09/09 |
Dentists welcome TNS / MRBI survey rejecting cuts in social welfare. |
| The Irish Dental Association [IDA] has welcomed the findings of today's Irish Times Opinion Poll showing public rejection of cuts in Social Welfare payments. |
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| 17/09/09 |
Dentists meet Minister for Social Welfare to urge retention of Dental Treatment Benefit Scheme |
| The Irish Dental Association has warned that the proposal by An Bord Snip to abolish the Dental Treatment Benefit Scheme [DTBS] could end up costing the Exchequer twice as much as it would cost to keep it in place. |
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| 28/08/09 |
3 out of every 4 Irish dentists treating patients for problems arising from treatment abroad |
| A major new survey has found that over the past 12 months, 76% of Irish dentists in private practice [more than 3 out of 4] have had to treat patients for problems linked to the dental treatment they received abroad. |
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| 19/08/09 |
Dentists launch poster campaign in 1,000 surgeries against An Bord Snip cuts |
| The Irish Dental Association [IDA] has launched a poster campaign in 1,000 dentist's surgeries to protest at the proposal made in the recent An Bord Snip report [McCarthy Report] to abolish the Dental Treatment Benefit Scheme [DTBS]. |
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| 29/07/09 |
Swine Flu - Guidance for Dentists |
| As we still await official advice to dentists in regard to swine flu, more than two months after it was declared as a pandemic, the Association has posted on its website guidance prepared in the US for dentists. |
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| 16/07/09 |
Dentists Shocked at Report's Attack on Dental Services |
| Dentists are shocked at the scale of changes contained in the report of An Bord Snip Nua and have warned that while the Association is prepared to discuss reforms it will not allow the unilateral destruction of dental services. |
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| 16/07/09 |
Briefing for IDA members re Bord Snip recommendations |
| The Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes was published today and has made a number of recommendations relating to dentists.
A briefing for IDA members is available on the hompeage of our member's section. |
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| 08/07/09 |
IDA outlines wide range of desirable changes in health financing submission |
| Dentists are supportive of incentives being built into their contracts which would be aligned with agreed goals for the public healthcare system.This call is made in a submission delivered by the IDA to the Department of Health and Children on Resource Allocation and Financing in the Health Sector.
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| 11/06/09 |
IDA To Establish Quality and Patient Safety Committee |
| The Council of the Irish Dental Association has decided to establish a Standing Committee to examine quality and patient safety issues affecting dentists and their patients.
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| 27/05/09 |
HIQA publishes standards to combat Healthcare Associated Infections |
| The Health Information and Quality Authority has today published new standards to combat the spread of Healthcare Associated Infections.
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| 24/05/09 |
IDA Members Update - HSE Moratorium and Cutbacks |
| Members are advised that a new HSE circular (HSE HR circular 15/2009) has been issued covering the moratorium on employment of staff by the HSE, promotions, payment of acting up allowances, provisions relating to renewal of temporary contracts, redeployment of staff and many other critical staffing issues.
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| 01/05/09 |
IDA Members Update re HSE Cutbacks / Moratorium |
| Talks are continuing between HSE management and unions on recruitment and staffing issues after the unions rejected as completely unacceptable a draft circular (HR circular 13/2009) detailing drastic cutbacks in the appointment and replacement of staff. |
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| 01/05/09 |
Fees Decision Will Lead to Further Delays for Medical Card Patients |
| The Irish Dental Association [IDA] has expressed disappointment at the announcement of cuts in fees to be paid to dentists treating medical card patients [DTSS Scheme]. |
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| 28/04/09 |
Medical Card Patients facing crisis in dental care; IDA Chief Executive urges support for trade union status for Association. |
| The sharp fall in the number of dentists participating in the Dental Treatment Services Scheme [DTSS] has resulted in a crisis in community care of dental patients with medical cards, the Chief Executive of the Irish Dental Association [IDA], Fintan Hourihan, has stated. |
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| 27/04/09 |
Dentists urge Government to ensure elderly losing medical cards don't lose out on essential dental care! |
| Dentists have called on the Government to ensure that over 70s get entitlement to essential dental treatment including dentures whether or not they have a medical card. |
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| 27/04/09 |
Annual Conference of the IDA hears details of the high incidence of tooth decay amongst young children in Ireland |
| The Annual Conference of the Irish Dental Association has today heard details of the high incidence of tooth decay amongst young children in Ireland. |
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| 27/04/09 |
IDA AGM: Incoming President warns of growing funding crisis in profession. |
| The Incoming President of the Irish Dental Association [IDA] will today [Thursday) warn that the profession is facing an unprecedented funding crisis. |
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| 08/04/09 |
Dentists warn of devastating impact on services for children and special needs patients arising from HSE recruitment ban |
| The recruitment embargo announced by the HSE for public dentists and others in the public health service will have devastating effects on dental services provided for children and special needs patients. |
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| 08/04/09 |
IDA Seeks to Appoint Employment / Communications Officer |
| The Irish Dental Association is seeking to appoint an Employment / Communications Officer. |
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| 18/02/09 |
Government Publishes Bill to Reduce Professional Fees and Impose Levy on Public Servants |
| The Government has today published a Bill which is intended to enable the Minister for Health to decide on the reduction of fees to health professionals, including dentists. |
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| 16/02/09 |
In the Dentists Chair - the challenges facing Irish dentists |
| An article by IDA CEO, Mr Fintan Hourihan, outlining the challenges facing dentists as published in the IHCA publication The Consultant. |
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| 13/02/09 |
IDA Disputes Claims on Dental Fees |
| Letter for publication sent to Irish Times following publication of article on patients travelling for dental treatment to Northern Ireland. |
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| 04/02/09 |
Briefing re Government Cutbacks |
| A detailed briefing on the implications of the Cutbacks Programme announced yesterday by the Government is available in the members' area of the site. |
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| 29/01/09 |
IDA Dentists Submission to Oireachtas Committee |
| Opening presentation by Fintan Hourihan, IDA Chief Executive, to Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children Review of Primary Care |
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| 18/12/08 |
Collapse of Medical Card Scheme Requires Urgent Government Response |
| Urgent action is required by the Government to address the virtual collapse of the medical card scheme. |
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| 15/12/08 |
IDA Makes Submission to Oireachtas Review of Primary Care |
| The IDA has made a submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children which is examining Primary Medical Care in the Community. |
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| 15/10/08 |
Dental patients to suffer as tax relief slashed |
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| 09/10/08 |
IDA pre-budget submission seeks better deal for patients and dentists |
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| 06/10/08 |
Dentists warn that vending machines in schools affecting the health of our teenagers |
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| 12/08/08 |
Medical Card patients facing longer delays for dental treatment as 190 dentists withdraw from state scheme |
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| 10/06/08 |
One in five adults suffer teeth sensitivity |
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| 12/05/08 |
Appointment of Fintan Hourihan as new CEO 7th April 2008 |
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| 28/04/08 |
One in Three Oral Injuries are Sports Related |
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| 25/03/08 |
Dental Anxiety in Children |
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| 17/12/07 |
Dentists advise of Oral Health Risk Associated with Osteoporosis and Cancer Drugs |
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| 16/10/07 |
Public Dental Service facing "meltdown" |
| Problems compounded by lack of Chief Dental Officer
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| 04/10/07 |
Dentists respond to Competition Authority report. |
| 8 out of 10 people entitled to Free or Subsidised Oral Healthcare - Yet Government Failing to Promote Entitlement. |
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| 10/09/07 |
Rebellious Oral Piercings can lead to Serious Illness |
| College Freshers Warned that Piercings can even lead to death in extreme cases. |
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| 13/08/07 |
No Gumshield - No Game |
| Dentists Urge Greater Use of Gumshields in School Sports
One in four children suffer dental trauma before age 15 |
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| 02/07/07 |
Irish Women Increasingly Contracting Oral (Mouth) Cancer |
| Cancer of the head and neck to top 500 cases this year |
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| 29/05/07 |
More Bacteria in Mouth than in Toilet Irish Dental Association |
| Kiss romance goodbye as bad breath bites |
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| 29/05/07 |
More Bacteria in Mouth than in Toilet ? Irish Dental Association |
| Kiss romance goodbye as bad breath bites |
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| 15/05/07 |
Statement by the Irish Dental Association on suspension of Aulin |
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| 02/04/07 |
92% of Dentists Vote for IDA to Remove Support for Dental Treatment Services Scheme |
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| 13/03/07 |
Medical card scheme for dental services approaching collapse |
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| 30/01/07 |
Increase in Stress Levels leading to Increase in Oral Damage |
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| 16/01/07 |
Government refusal to negotiate with Dentists |
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| 13/12/06 |
Irish Times - Letter to the Editor |
| Re Dental Tourism |
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| 04/12/06 |
New President of IDA identifies lack of Chief Dental Officer as reason for sharp decline in dental service provision in last two years |
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| 12/09/06 |
IDA responds to media reports of 7% increase in dental fees |
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| 29/05/06 |
Why Flossing Might Just Save Your Life. |
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| 24/04/06 |
Time to "Spring Clean your mouth" to take care of your health |
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| 31/01/06 |
New Chief Executive Officer appointed to Irish Dental Association |
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| 31/01/06 |
Dentists discuss latest sedation techniques at annual seminar |
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| 31/01/06 |
Dental Association calls on Government to launch awareness campaign on free dental care entitlements |
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| 31/01/06 |
450 new cases of oral cancer every year in Ireland |
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| 31/01/06 |
Dentists respond to Competition Authority report |
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