The dental helpline run by the Oral Health Foundation is being exploited by scammers who have created premium line numbers purporting to be run by the foundation but which take money from unsuspecting callers.
The Foundation is alerting the public and the profession to the scam and highlighting that the only number for the helpline is a local-rate telephone number: 01788 539 780. The service is run by dentally qualified personnel, mostly dental nurses, and is free.
Dr Nigel Carter OBE, chief executive of the foundation, advised anybody wanting to contact the helpline to check the authenticity of the telephone number first. The helpline can be reached by email: helpline@dentalhealth.org or via the website: www.dentalhealth.org/dentalhelpline.
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Scammers exploiting Oral Health Foundation helpline. BDJ Team 6, 4 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41407-019-0011-z
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