The Professional Board for Dental Therapy and Oral Hygiene (PBDOH) has over the years received enquiries from Dental Assistants to change the Board name to… Read More »A dental assistant by any other name…

In the modern attention-economy, marketing has reality for any practitioner involved in running a sustainable practice. However, we urge professionals to stay within ethical boundaries when… Read More »Advertising guidelines for practitioners

The sharing of rooms amongst practitioners is the most cost-effective mechanism to ensure that all services are provided under one roof. However, a practitioner may… Read More »Rules for sharing offices

Effective medical care depends largely on the free flow of information between patient and healthcare professional, possibly only if patients are assured of confidentiality when… Read More »Confidentiality fundamental to sound healthcare

Few people remember the polio epidemics in Johannesburg in the first half of the 20th century, or the many thousands of child deaths attributed to… Read More »New vaccines on the way

The following events will take place in KwaZulu Natal in November 2016: 40th IHF World Hospital Congress Date: 31 October – 3 November, 2016 Venue:… Read More »HPCSA Events

In anticipation of the new changes facing the HPCSA, the following appointments were made on an interim basis to the secretariat’s leadership team: Chief Operations… Read More »HPCSA leadership changes

The HPCSA Inspectorate Office is here to assist and guide healthcare professionals to perform their duties of helping the public without any hindrances. The Inspectorate… Read More »Guidance for healthcare professionals

In order to improve services and create efficiencies, the HPCSA has launched a new system. Practitioners who obtained their basic medical qualification outside of South… Read More »Build your career portfolio online

Practitioners often enquire if they can lodge a complaint against another practitioner whom they believe is unethical or practising outside the scope of their qualifications.… Read More »How to lodge a complaint

The majority of medical schemes require their members to obtain authorisation before receiving services from healthcare practitioners registered under the Health Professions Act. While acting… Read More »Patients to get scheme permission

You are not the first person working as a dental assistant – or many other careers, for that matter – to ask if you have… Read More »Am I in a dead-end career?

The Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has published the amendment regulations relating to the qualifications for the registration of dental assistants for comment in… Read More »Dental assistants subject to new regulations

There has been an increase in the number of cases of malpractice litigation against colleagues within the health profession as a result of actual or… Read More »Guarding against litigations

It is practically impossible to divorce law from the practice of dentistry. Every patient-oral health professional interaction has legal implications. Say, for example, if an… Read More »Legal “duty to act” explained

The Council has established an Inspectorate Office whose main focus and primary role is to ensure that registered practitioners comply with the provisions of the… Read More »Protecting communities from bogus doctors

The first formal education and training of Oral Hygienists was introduced in 1972 following extensive debate and negotiations between members of the Dental Association of… Read More »Oral hygienists under the microscope