2022, issue 21

Regulation of facial aesthetics across the UK

Jo-Anne Taylor
Exploring the professional, ethical and legal obligations dental registrants must observe when delivering facial aesthetic interventions.

Free associate contract checking service included with DDU dentist membership

Wherever a registrant practices, GDC guidance and standards apply in the usual way.

This page was correct at publication on 26/01/2022. Any guidance is intended as general guidance for members only. If you are a member and need specific advice relating to your own circumstances, please contact one of our advisers.

Jo-Anne Taylor
Dento-legal adviser

B.Ch.d (Hons) MSc, PG Cert Medical Education, PG. Cert Medical Aesthetics, SFHEA. Jo qualified from Leeds Dental Institute in 1991 and spent 16 years providing general dental services in the UK and Australia. She has worked in private and NHS practice as well as in the Community Dental Services. Jo is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has held several teaching posts in Yorkshire and more recently in Hampshire, where among other roles she worked as Associate Head (Education) at the University of Portsmouth Dental Academy. Jo joined the DDU as a telephone adviser in 2020 and began working as a dento-legal adviser in 2021.