Our purpose is to protect the public by regulating dentists and dental care professionals in the United Kingdom.

GDC aims:

• to protect patients
• to promote confidence in dentists and dental care professionals
• to be at the forefront of healthcare regulation.
  

What we do

We:

• register qualified professionals
• set standards of dental practice and conduct
• assure the quality of dental education
• ensure professionals keep up-to-date
• help patients with complaints about a dentist or a dental care professional
• are working to strengthen patient protection

How we work

We will:

• Work inclusively with others
• Be accountable
• Be open and accessible
• Be professional and business-like
• Strive to ensure we promote equality of opportunity and diversity in all that we do
  

For more detailed information about what we do, explore the pages in Our work.

Business Plan:

Each year the Council sets a business plan for the year ahead. 

• Download the 2009 Business Plan (PDF, 109Kb)
• Download the Quarterly performance update (PDF, 2.1M)

Our performance against our business plan milestones is reported to our Executive Management Team quarterly.

Read our previous reports, Milestones Quarter 3.