FEDCAR
The EU has prepared the phasing out of dental amalgams.
New timeline agreed on 8 February 2024, following the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2024/1849 of 13 June 2024, enters into force on 1 January 2025. The consolidated version of the text is available here.
2 derogations are nevertheless planned.
Read moreDeclaration on professional liability in dentistry :
The dental care provided to the patient is governed by a code of ethics that must not vary according to the economic framework of the practice (see note 1).
Whether the dental clinic is part of a dental chain, a professional company or the sole property of a single practitioner, responsibility towards the patient must be identical.
FEDCAR recalls that the independence of professional judgment is a deontological principle protected by the European judge (see note 2) and the European legislator (see note 3).
Read moreConfidence in the quality of dental qualifications, whether acquired in Europe or beyond, is essential to facilitate a proper recognition.
For this reason, the European Dental Regulators and Competent Authorities gathered in FEDCAR welcome the proposed decision on a “European Year of Skills 2023” and its ambition for “promoting tools and instruments for increased transparency of qualifications, including qualifications awarded outside the Union” (draft Article 3(1)(g)).
While attracting qualified third-country nationals may be seen by some as an additional way to help to address skills and labour shortages in the EU -and the 2024 report “Health at a Glance” focusses again on the health workforce crisis-, this must be done without compromising patient health safety.
Read moreThe European Journal of Dental Education publishes an interesting paper penned by Melanie Nasseripour, Angela Harkins, Patricia Neville, Amitha Ranauta, based in UK, on how to prepare the graduates of the future to navigate the commercial pressures stemming from social media.
“Dental regulators and educational institutions are increasingly concerned about the influence of digital platforms used by the profession for social, business, digital interaction with the public/patients and its impact on the professionalism in practice now and going forward”.
Read moreFrom the 2024 edition of the EU-OECD publication ‘Health at a glance’ 4 important information can be reported :
1-6% of people who needed dental care reported some unmet needs because of affordability or accessibility issues according to the survey.
But this proportion reached over 12% among people at risk of poverty. Over years this inequality has slightly increased. FEDCAR comes back to it in its manifesto.
Dental care accounts for over one-third of primary healthcare spending on average across the EU. “Top spenders include Estonia and Lithuania where spending on dental care represents 10% of the overall health budget. This share is significantly smaller in the Netherlands and Spain (3%)”.
Recall : in 2021 4.4% of EU children did not have proper dental care.
2-On average across EU countries a person had 1.2 consultations with a dentist in 2022.
“This ranges from 0.3 in Romania to 3.3 consultations in the Netherlands” (see the first table below).
Read moreWe bring together European orders and bodies responsible for the regulation, the registration and the supervision of dental practitioners. We share information and good practices on the regulation of dentists and aim at promoting common positions to the EU legislator regarding initiatives and legislation at European level which affect the regulation of dental professionals.
Chair of FEDCAR
President of the Dental Chamber of Croatia / Hrvatska komora dentalne medicine
General Secretary of FEDCAR
Former President for 2022
PRESIDENTE DELLA COMMISSIONE ALBO ODONTOIATRI DI AOSTA
