COVID-19

The importance of managing oral health during the COVID-19 pandemic

With COVID-19 limiting clinicians’ interaction with patients, Rohini Bansal lists the advice she’s giving to her patients so they can…

Oral health

Why we must prioritise the dental health of pregnant mothers now more than ever

Dr Mike Heffernan explains the dental health challenges connected to pregnancy and how best to help your patients overcome them…

Dentistry

Dental practitioners rank highest for mental health issues

Dental practitioners are the highest-ranking occupation when it comes to mental health struggles, new data reveals.  On a list assessing…

Dentistry

How did COVID-19 affect you? – Philip Lewis

Philip Lewis explains the impact the COVID lockdown is having on mouth cancer and why it’s essential patients return to…

Oral health

What’s life like at dental school following lockdown? – a student’s perspective

With dental students returning to university, we speak to Gursahib Sohal about what life is like following the COVID-19 lockdown.…

Young Dentist

How did COVID-19 affect you? – Mike Lewis

Today we hear from Professor Mike Lewis about the impact COVID-19 is having on the detection of mouth cancer and…

Oral health

FGDP(UK) launches a fallow time calculator for dental practices

‘A benchmark of 15 to 30 minutes’ – this is the new fallow time recommendation endorsed by the Faculty of…

Dentistry

COVID-19: missed dental appointments hits 14 million in England

The number of missed dental appointments in England has reached 14 million as a result of COVID-19.  This is according…

Dentistry

A healthy word – safe use of aerosols

Although there’s no way of completely removing dental aerosols, Anna Middleton gives her three tips to reduce them so the…

Oral health

How did COVID-19 affect you? – Gina Vega

In the first of a series of videos, we hear how the dental profession is getting back to the practice.…

Orthodontics

Dental news you’ve missed this week

Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… Dental teams should…

Dentistry

How has COVID-19 affected dental provision for the homeless?

Robert Witton discusses the impact of COVID-19 on dental provision for vulnerable groups. The COVID crisis has hit dentistry hard.…

Oral health

COVID-19 – most dentists unable to provide ‘full service’ this year

Three quarters of dentists report they will not provide a full service this year or do not know when they…

Dentistry

Calls for NHS England to set out next steps for dental services

A parliamentary committee is calling on NHS England to set out the next steps to secure sustainable and efficient dental…

Dentistry

COVID-19: calls for sustainable solution to PPE within dentistry

Experts are calling for a sustainable solution to PPE in dentistry as the profession responds to the COVID-19 crisis. In…

Dentistry

NHS dental practices to get free PPE under new government plan

Dental practices will have access to free PPE as part of the UK government’s new second wave strategy.  In its…

Dentistry

Dental teams should receive priority access to COVID-19 vaccine

Health and social care workers should be granted priority access to a COVID-19 vaccine when available in the UK. This…

Dentistry

Supporting dental colleagues with long-haul COVID symptoms

Rumana Husein explains what it was like to catch COVID, dealing with the long-tail and how she set up a…

Oral health

Dental news you’ve missed this week

Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… CDO Sara Hurley…

Dentistry