Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will commission a study to investigate potential links between dental treatment and Alzheimer's disease.

The Department has no plans to commission a study on the specific risk of transmission of Alzheimer’s disease in dentistry. There is no evidence that Alzheimer's disease can be transmitted through any medical procedure. In dentistry, patients are protected from the risk of infection by either mandatory single use instruments, or where instruments are reused, by guidance on strict decontamination procedures as per the Health Technical Memorandum 01-05: Decontamination in primary care dental practices - 2013 edition.