Dental Council (other)
Dental Council may refer to: * Dental Council of India, a 1948 establishment * General Dental Council, a United Kingdom organisation which regulates all dental professionals in the country * Orthodontic Technicians Association Council, the governing body of the Orthodontic Technicians Association * Pakistan Medical and Dental Council Pakistan Medical Commission is a statutory regulatory authority that maintains the official register of medical practitioners in Pakistan. Its chief function is to establish uniform minimum standards of basic and higher qualifications in medici ...

Dental Council Of India
The Dental Council of India was incorporated under The Dentists Act, 1948 to regulate dental education and the profession throughout India. It is financed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and through the local state dental councils. Objectives * Maintain uniform standards of dental education in India * Regulate the curriculum in the training of dentists, dental hygienists and dental mechanics * Regulate the level of examinations and qualifications Function The Dental Council of India is constituted by an act of parliament ‘The Dentists Act 1948’ (XVI of 1948) with a view to regulate the dental education, dental profession and dental ethics thereto-which came into existence in March, 1949. The Council is composed of 6 constituencies representing Central Government, State Government, Universities, Dental Colleges, Medical Council of India and the Private Practitioners of Dentistry. The Director-General of Health Services is Ex-Officio Member – both of the ...
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General Dental Council
The General Dental Council (GDC) is an organisation which regulates dental professionals in the United Kingdom. It keeps an up-to-date register of all qualified dentists and other dental care professionals such as: dental hygienists, dental therapists, dental nurses, dental technicians and clinical dental technicians. It was established in 1956 to set and maintain standards in UK dentistry, with the aims of protecting the general public from unqualified dental professionals. Its headquarters are in Wimpole Street, Marylebone, London. The General Dental Council has also stated that it aims to promote confidence in dental professionals and to be at the forefront of health care regulation. The GDC is tasked with ensuring that all dental professionals maintain up to date knowledge, controlling the quality of dental education in the country, ensuring a proper quality of care is given to the patients, and helping any patient who has questions or complaints. It is meant to act as a b ...
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Orthodontic Technicians Association
The Orthodontic Technicians Association (UK) (OTA) is the professional body that represents orthodontic technologists, based in the United Kingdom. History In 1971, orthodontic technicians based at London teaching hospitals began holding meetings to discuss the regulation of orthodontic technology and the ways in which standards in the profession could be improved. Bert Aldridge, laboratory manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, and Len Bradshaw, his counterpart at Kings College Dental School, discussed the possibility of forming an association for orthodontic technicians. Aldridge and Bradshaw were also lecturers in orthodontics at South London College on Tooley Street, which has since merged with Brixton College of Further Education and Vauxhall College to become Lambeth College (the Tooley Street campus moved to Clapham in 2004). Aldridge wrote to the other orthodontic technicians working at London teaching hospitals and invited them to attend a meeting on Mon ...
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