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Shamir B Mehta1, Raj Rattan2, Len D Cruz3
1Lead Clinical Adviser, Fitness to Practise, Regulation Directorate, General Dental Council, UK; Programme Director MSc in Aesthetic Dentistry, King´s College London, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, Guy´s Campus, London, UK. smehta@gdc-uk.org.
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This article provides an overview of the composition and purpose of record-keeping in dental practice and in the context of a General Dental Council (GDC) fitness to practise (FtP) investigation. It includes an overview of the GDC's FtP process. The importance of making appropriate patient records from a dento-legal perspective is also highlighted, together with changing trends in record-keeping in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years and factors that have contributed to 'note bloat' - a term that describes unnecessarily lengthy (at times, superfluous) records. It calls for a shift in current practice and explores alternative options for record-keeping in a more concise way and discusses how this may be achieved.
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