In May/June 2011, the independent market research organisation Ipsos Mori carried out a survey of registered dental professionals for the GDC. The survey, the first of its kind, was carried out online with a representative sample of registrants including both dentists and dental care professionals. The survey covered the following issues:

 

Attitudes to dental regulation and the GDC;

 

 

Some questions in the survey were designed to allow comparison with responses to similar questions in the annual patient and public survey