Dentistry

Student has designs on holistic dental care

A 22-year-old student has had her top design of the ‘dental experience’ hailed as ‘future thinking’ by judges. Lottie Duke,…

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Dental puzzles for kids

Children in dental practice waiting rooms can while away their time puzzling out the reasons for trying to achieve good…

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WAC tickets – an aesthetic dentistry must!

The seventh World Aesthetic Congress (WAC) – the UK’s leading and largest aesthetic dentistry event – takes place in just…

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Survey shows up bad dental habits of a nation

Flossing while driving, opening bottles with the teeth, ignoring bleeding gums and using hammers, earrings and lollipop sticks to pick…

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Government acts to reduce teenage alcohol intake

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Evidence, reason and occlusion?

We live in a world of evidence-based medicine and the internet now enables us to access the latest evidence from…

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Dental therapists discuss oral health

Dental therapists gathered in Inverness for the first time for their annual scientific meeting. Some 20 members of the Scottish…

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Teeth take the rough with a smoothie

Dental experts are blasting the claim that fruit smoothies are a healthy option. The British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF) is…

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Editor’s blog 7: Lucky number se7en

I’m here again with another blog\. This week it’s a look at WAC’s Hygienist programme, some news, and a bit…

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Student bursary awarded to Cork student

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Dentistry takes on fundraising challenge – and walks it!

Teams from the world of dentistry converged on Yorkshire last weekend to brave the Three Peaks Challenge in aid of…

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Rewarding those who inspire

Most people have one teacher who inspired them to go that extra mile. Someone who spurred them on when exams…

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Hooking patients with a great website

So much is written about websites these days that it is increasingly hard to sort the wheat from the chaff…

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It’s all about acceptance

We live in unpredictable times, especially for those of us dentists who are aspiring to do much more with our…

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Photos to adorn cigarette packs for shock impact

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Mouth cancer charity welcomes shock images on cigarette packs

Gruesome photos showing how deadly a habit smoking can be will be slapped on every cigarette packet sold in the…

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Health minister to address local dental committees conference

Health minister Ann Keen will address next month’s local dental committees conference. The conference – at Kensington Town Hall in…

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Dentists among those urged to ‘go green’

Health professionals must take steps to reduce their carbon footprint, the British Medical Association (BDA) has said. They are asked…

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Dear Coach…

Chris Barrow with a tip on turning a trip to the hygienist into a big event. Dear Coach… I’d like…

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