Brighter.com offers user comments about the dentists from Yelp.com and gathers comments on the site itself.
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Cigna says 82% of the dentists in its group dental network also participate in its discount plans and accept the same rate for both.
They found that almost a quarter of all the dentists called were only taking on private patients - others weren't taking on any patients at all.
"You put the dentists and the doctors and the accountants in the vocational colleges and I think that would deal with the class issue, " said Lord Glasman.
Deputy Health Minister Lewis Macdonald, who met the Polish dentists on Monday, insisted the executive had no intention of reviewing the qualification for allowances introduced last October.
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Money would be used to fill the 700 nurse vacancies in Wales, to stem the flow of dentists leaving the Welsh NHS and encourage more back into it.
But Chief Dental Officer Barry Cockcroft denied claims it would not change the treadmill of "drill and fill", whereby the more treatments dentists do, the more they earn.
The OFT discovered several important problems with the availability of dentists' services and the choices for patients.
Unfortunately, of the 120 dentists within five miles of my zip code in Columbus, Ohio, only 3 in 120 are onboard.
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During the first visit, pediatric dentists evaluate the child and ward off risks.
Now, there will be some rich lawyers and dentists who are paying higher taxes while the far richer hedge fund and private equity moguls the lawyers and dentists work for will experience less of a tax hit.
The Welsh assembly has offered grants to encourage health service dentists to set up or expand in areas where there are shortages, but so far this has failed to attract the number of dentists required.
The number of dentists receiving at least three-quarters of their income from the NHS dropped from 75% in 1993 to 58% in 1999.
Like similar sites, Brighter.com will succeed or fail depending on reaching a critical mass of users, because customers are the lever that will move other dentists into joining the program.
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Lester Ellman, of the British Dental Association, welcomed the fact that extra dentists had been recruited to work in the NHS, but said quick fix solutions would not solve the manpower shortage in the longer term.
The British Dental Association said the research supported dentists' standard advice.
Susie Sanderson, chair of the BDA's executive committee, has written to Tony Blair challenging his assertion in parliament last week that the majority of dentists would come on board.
The extent of the shortage of dentists in some areas of rural Wales became evident in July 2003, when 600 people queued to take up NHS places on offer at a new practice in Carmarthen.
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Members of the health committee heard about plans to change the way that doctors and dentists are trained during a session on the reconfiguration of the NHS in Wales.
Dr Halperin agreed with the British Dental Association that many dentists may not sign up to the new contract.
The Cellularguard site likens its product to the lead apron that dentists drape over patients during X rays.
Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) wanted to know when the government would improve the provision of NHS dentists.
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The Cellularguard site likens its product to the lead apron that dentists drape over patients while taking X rays.
She added that there "was a general shortage of dentists in the UK which was not unique to Wales".
Ms Van Drie's arrival in Scarborough prompted hundreds of people to queue to register with her clinic, highlighting the shortage of NHS dentists.
Rather, the Florida Dental Association, whose members would likely benefit by limiting the competitive advantage of dentists certified in implant dentistry, lobbied for it.
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What makes the business unique, Winebaum says, is a tool that lets price-sensitive users compare the rates that member dentists in their area charge for common procedures.
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Starting in the late 1990s, dentists began banding together under DSOs, taking advantage of economies of scale in order to cut overhead costs and provide quality service at much lower prices.
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