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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Primary care NHS dentistry is almost unique in allowing clinicians working in a publicly funded service to offer private treatment within the
same course of treatment as NHS treatment, on the same day and, in England and Wales, on the same tooth. Under the current NHS General Dental Services contract (2006) a dentist is required
to provide all 'proper and necessary dental care and treatment which the patient is willing to undergo' and includes everything that is necessary to secure the patient's oral
health. That treatment must also be provided with reasonable skill and care.1 This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution ACCESS OPTIONS Access through your
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Services Contracts) Regulations 2005. * National Health Service (Dental Charges) Regulations 2005 Appendix 3. * Rattan R, D'Cruz L. Grey matters: 2006 and all that. _Prim Dent J_ 2019;
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