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Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

4 News United Kingdom Edition October 2013 CLEARFIL MAJESTY TM ES-2 You’ll be amazed by the blending effects every time you work with this intuitive composite concept... Selecting the right shade has never been more precise. CLEARFIL MAJESTY™ ES-2, the world’s first brightness based shade system for direct composites is being introduced this autumn – all approved by VITA™. Email: jsdsales@js-davis.co.uk Visit: www.js-davis.co.uk T he Care Quality Com- mission is to be given greater independence, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced. Under the proposals, the Health Secretary will re- linquish a range of powers to intervene in the operational decisions of the CQC. The CQC will no longer need to ask for Secretary of State ap- proval to carry out an investi- gation into a hospital or care home, and the Secretary of State will no longer have the power to direct the CQC on the content of its annual report. In addition, the newly cre- ated positions of Chief Inspec- tor of Hospitals, General Prac- tice and Adult Social Care, will be enshrined in law. They will lead CQC’s inspections and regulate providers of health or social care services across the public, private and independ- ent sectors. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: “The Chief In- spector must be the nation’s whistleblower in chief. We will legislate in the Care Bill to give the CQC statutory in- dependence, rather like the Bank of England has over in- terest rates. The welfare of patients is too important for political meddling and our new legislation will make sure Ministers always put patients first.” DT CQC given more independence A dentist has been jailed in Germany for secretly filming his female staff while they were changing clothes. The 52-year-old had in- stalled a video camera in the changing room of his practice which was used by his female hygienists and receptionists. Af- ter staff discovered the camera, investigators found almost 7,500 video files on the defendant’s computer going back six years, showing eight victims in their underwear or naked. He has been convicted of 211 counts of violation of pri- vacy using a recording device and jailed for two years and four months. DT Dentist jailed for filming female staff A dentist has invented a de- vice that will replace the traditional toothbrush, toothpaste, floss and mouth rinse, and now he is trying to raise money to develop it. The CLEARsmile device is a ‘pressure wash’ for teeth and gums that hits every angle si- multaneously, says inventor Dr Igor Reizenson. He came up with the idea while working in the Veterans Hospital and see- ing elderly bed-ridden patients unable to clean their teeth, and nurses not able to do it for them. He also did community den- tistry on mobile buses for under privileged children across the state of Georgia, US, and came to the conclusion that an oral hygiene device that is quick, easy and effective, is needed. Dr Reizenson now needs to create a prototype and it was found that $750,000 is needed to be raised to do this. His cam- paign can be found at the crowd funding site indiegogo.com DT ‘Pressure wash’ your teeth and gums The CLEARsmile Device