The words to use
- Standards for the Dental Team
- The GDC's 2013 standards, known as the "silver book", setting nine principles for all dental professionals. Still in force as of October 2026.
- Framework for Professionalism
- The GDC's proposed replacement, consulted on from June to August 2026, with four principles of equal importance. No outcome had been published by October 2026.
- Fitness to practise
- Whether a registrant is safe and suitable to practise. The GDC received 1,766 fitness-to-practise concerns in 2025, up 26% on 2024.
- Standard 1.7
- You must put patients' interests before your own or those of any colleague, business or organisation, including never pressurising patients into private care.
