Reviewers: Who Checks the Content
At present, no General Dental Council (GDC) registered dentist or other clinician reviews the pages on this site, and we do not claim that they do. The guides are written and fact-checked by our editorial team against the sources they cite. That is a different thing from clinical review, and this page explains the difference.
What “fact-checked” means on this site
Guides carry the line “Written and fact-checked by the editorial team”. It describes a process, not a named person. Each factual statement is linked to a source we have opened and read. Before a page goes live, an editor checks that each link works, that each sentence says no more than its source does, that numbers match the source, and that we have not cited anything outside our list of permitted source types. The full process is in our editorial standards.
We do not use phrases such as “medically reviewed” or “clinically reviewed”, we do not show a review panel, and we do not display reviewer names, photographs or badges, because none of that would be true.
What this model cannot do
Checking a claim against its source is not the same as a dentist judging whether the source has been applied sensibly. A clinical reviewer might spot a point we have framed badly, or a risk we have under-weighted, that a fact-check would not catch. To limit that, we keep to what sources say, we do not give advice about individual teeth or individual treatment plans, and we say plainly when the evidence is thin. If you notice something that looks wrong to you, especially if you are a dental professional, please tell us.
None of it replaces an examination. Anything that depends on the state of your own teeth, gums or bone is a question for a GDC-registered dentist who has seen you, and our guide on how to check the register shows how to confirm that a dentist is registered.
If this changes
If we appoint a GDC-registered dentist as a reviewer, we will name them on this page, give their registration number so that you can check it on the public register, say which sections they have reviewed and when, and only then add a reviewer line to those pages. Until that happens, you will not see a reviewer name anywhere on the site. Be wary of any health site that refers to unnamed “medical reviewers” and gives you no way to check them.
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Last updated October 2026.