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1. He must notify the GDC within 7 days of any post he accepts for which GDC registration is required and the Commissioning Body on whose Dental Performers List he is included. 2. If employed, he must provide contact details of his employer to the GDC within 7 days of this determination and allow the GDC to exchange information with his employer or any contracting body for which he provides dental services. 3. He must inform the GDC within 7 days of any formal disciplinary proceedings taken against him, from the date of this determination. 4. He must inform the GDC within 7 days of any complaint made against him, from the date of this determination. 5. He must inform the GDC if he applies for dental employment outside the UK, within 7 days of such an application being made. 6. He must not work as a locum or undertake any out-of-hours work or on-call duties. 7. At any time he is employed, or providing dental services, which requires him to be registered with the GDC, he must place himself and remain under the supervision of a workplace supervisor nominated by him, and agreed by the GDC. The supervisor is to oversee his practice as it relates to the assessment of patients for possible implants, preparing for or placing implants and aftercare relating to implants. 8. The involvement of a workplace supervisor is only required for dental implant services. Non-implant services may be provided without a workplace supervisor in place. 9. He must not start or restart implant services until the workplace supervisor has been approved by the GDC. 10. He must allow his workplace supervisor to provide reports concerning implants to the GDC every three months and at least 14 days prior to any review. The reports will include details of the discussions and any action points resulting from the one-to-one meetings and cover (including but not limited to) the following areas of clinical practice as they relate to the assessment of patients for possible implants, preparing for or placing implants and aftercare relating to implants: • Record keeping • Consent • Pre-treatment assessment • Diagnosis and treatment of periodontal disease • Treatment planning • Risks and benefits of treatment 11. After assessing a patient as suitable for implants, and before the course of treatment is started, he must present the assessment, clinical rationale, consent process, treatment plan (including any pre-implant periodontal treatment) and proposed charges to his supervisor. He must not start the implant treatment unless his supervisor has considered and approved the matters set out in this condition. 12. After any implant is placed, he must present the case again to his supervisor and discuss the success or otherwise of the procedure, and plans for follow-up or aftercare. If the patient returns with issues related to an implant, the case must be presented again to the supervisor at the meeting following the return of the patient. 13. He must complete and submit a log of cases relating to the clinical areas set out in condition 10, approved by his workplace supervisor, to the GDC every three months and at least 14 days prior to any review hearing. 14. He must allow the GDC to exchange information with his Workplace Supervisor.

15. He must inform within 7 days the following parties that his registration is subject to the conditions, listed at 1 to 14 above, and provide evidence to the GDC that this has been done: a. Any organisation or person employing or contracting with him to undertake dental work; b. Any prospective employer (at the time of application); c. The Commissioning Body or Health Board in whose Dental Performers List he is included or seeking inclusion (at the time of application); d. Every member of the dental team and all employees at the practice(s) where he works. They must also be informed that they should contact the workplace supervisor immediately if they are concerned about his fitness to practise and/or his compliance with the conditions for the workplace supervisor to include within their report. 16. He must permit the GDC to disclose the conditions, listed at 1 to 15 above, to any person requesting information about his registration status. Supervised The registrant’s day to day work must be supervised by a person who is registered with the GDC in their category of the register or above. The supervisor need not work at the same practice as the registrant, but must make themselves available to provide advice or assistance should they be required. The registrant’s work must be reviewed at least once fortnightly by the supervisor via one to one meetings and case-based discussion. These fortnightly meetings must be focused on all areas of concern identified by the conditions/undertakings. These meetings should take place face to face however, as a minimum, at least one of the two meetings must be face to face per month. **Single-handed dental practice A dentist operating as a sole practitioner without the support of other dentists is working single- handedly. If this is the case, the registrant may not be safe to practise without daily contact from a supervisor or without having the option of seeking assistance from a supervisor on site. In those circumstances it may be appropriate to deny a registrant the right to work single-handedly, for the protection of the public.