Dental professionals

Advisory

There may be a time in your professional career when you have to face a dento-legal or ethical problem. If such a situation should arise, our team of dento-legal advisers are here to provide specialist advice and assistance to members 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

The advisory team includes full-time dentists who have dento-legal expertise and understand the realities of clinical practice and the importance of your reputation.

We can help you with a range of situations such as:

• Dento-legal and ethical advice about issues arising from patient care such as confidentiality and consent.
• Assistance in dealing with complaints
• Adverse incident inquiries
• Disciplinary proceedings
• Proceedings of registration bodies like the GDC in respect of professional performance, conduct or health
• Criminal investigations into clinical care that you have provided