Sir, thank you for the editorial Degrees of separation about the GDC agreeing in principle at a public meeting in December 2007 to abolish the current system for adding dental professionals' additional qualifications to its registers. I think it is really important that the profession is aware of this and I thank you wholeheartedly for notifying the profession of this change.

Did the GDC actually inform any of us directly or was it just left for us to find this out by visiting their website?

I successfully completed my part 2 of the MFGDP qualification last June and was told that after ratification by the Royal College in October 2007 the GDC would be informed of the decision and that the qualification would be listed after my name on the register.

I recently relocated and in the process of applying for jobs I was challenged by a prospective employer as to why the MFGDP qualification was not recorded on the GDC register? I think he thought I had just made it up to look good on my CV! I then checked the register myself and right enough no additional qualification was there. I contacted the FGDP and they said that the GDC was being a bit funny about accepting additional qualifications! What – from the Royal College of Surgeons? I was told to contact the GDC.

I tried phoning on several occasions and didn't have the time to wait in the queuing system, so I sent an email, to which I have not as yet received a reply. Eventually being refuelled with determination after reading your article I tried again. I could not get to speak to Moragh Loose, but was told to write and to send copies of my qualification and because I completed the qualification before the agreement in principle there may be a chance that the qualification will be recorded.

So if this agreement in principle, as you say is inevitable as death and taxes and it is going to happen, then what will happen to all these recorded additional qualifications that they have so far? Will these all be wiped off so that only our primary qualification will be shown or is it just that qualifications achieved after December 2007 are not worthy to be recorded? The person I spoke to at the GDC did not know.

I will wait to see if Moragh Loose will answer my query and live in hope that my MFGDP will be recorded.

If you want to add your views contact Moragh yourself at the GDC or at mloose@gdc-uk.org.