DFO Netcast 45 - How many QALYs make a QATY
Channel: Derek Watson
Date: 29/09/2013

Amirthanandan "Mano" Manoharan wants to raise £100,000 for a 20% share in a company manufacturing tongue scrapers. Are Derek Watson BDS, Chris Ritchie (Editor, Fusion magazine) and Richard Lishman MD of the 4dentists group IN, or OUT?

Richard Lishman thinks it is time to replace his old orange Allegro. Omar Addow is struck off for bringing dentistry into disrepute although it turns out that dentistry was the last profession he was thinking of practising. What is the role of dentists in the detection of child abuse? If someone knocks a few of their child's teeth out they get arrested and spend a long time in jail. If you give your children sweets and get your dentist to carry out the violence, you get away with a ticking off about the dangers of sugar. Has the time come for a few, high profile, prosecutions for rampant decay as an instrument of child abuse?

NICE has been asked to make recommendations to support Local Authority commissioning of dental public health. NICE was set up to assess drugs. How can they assess a profession? Because NICE works in QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Years) the dental academics have invented the QATY (Quality Adjusted Tooth Year). But how many QATY's make up a QUALY. We reckon about a billion. And Freddy Earl has got dentistry, but does he have chlamydia? We explain how a three-person committee could start the Third World War with a teeny-weeny rubber stamp. Visit us on stand R10j at Showcase and don't forget to upgrade your iPhone to the new operating system and download the Fusion app.

PS. Confused about the 2 x USB jokes? Listen to Netcast 0045 Extras

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