# The UK dental regulator expects a trained member of the dental team to work alongside the clinician at all times when treating patients, with only narrow exceptions

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20130930-dental-assistant-6
Date: 2013-09-30 · Stage: Constraint
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## Scope

United Kingdom. The regulator's standards say registrants should work with another appropriately trained member of the dental team at all times when treating patients in a dental setting, the only exceptions being out-of-hours emergencies, treatment in a public health programme or exceptional circumstances, defined as unavoidable and unforeseeable, with leave or training absences expressly not counting. Effective from 30 September 2013. It is worded as 'should' with stated exceptions, and it names no role, so the second person need not be a dental nurse.

## Source

- General Dental Council — Standards for the Dental Team, Principle 6, standard 6.2.2 (effective from 30 September 2013) — https://standards.gdc-uk.org/pages/principle6/principle6.aspx (primary source)

## What this means

In UK dentistry, treating a patient alone is not the norm the regulator accepts.

## What it does not show yet

Worded as 'should' with exceptions, and it does not say the second person must be a dental assistant.

## How to verify it yourself

Open the General Dental Council's Standards for the Dental Team, principle 6, and find "6.2.2 You should work with another appropriately trained member of the dental team".


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