Sebastian Evans

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The new Alpha autoclave from Prestige Medical has been designed to offer dental practices an affordable sterilisation solution. Those looking for cost effective means of sterilising instruments, Alpha sets high standards for speed, efficiency and performance. Highly efficient, yet compact, its capacity to process six full sized trays is twice as many as its nearest…

The volunteers fly out in July on behalf of dental charity, Dentaid, and will be taking part in a National Dental Skills Transfer Workshop. They will be helping to install a Dentaid surgery in a hospital in Zomba and plan to deliver dental equipment, instruments and materials to the dentists working there. Now they are…

Dentistry LIVE is a fantastic dentist and dental team event within the heart of London. Recognising that the success of your business relies on exceptional teamwork, Dentistry LIVE provides you with an fantastic personal learning and development experience while underlining the value embedded in your team. The event’s programme and format is specifically designed to…

The awards are open to undergraduates and postgraduates and entries can now be submitted via the ADG website www.dentalgroups.co.uk. Undergraduates are able to apply for two awards focusing on professionalism and management. There are three prizes of Gold £1,000, Silver £750 and Bronze £250 for both undergraduate awards. The postgraduate award will be for the…

The official launch reception of the UK’s largest oral health campaign – National Smile Month – takes place today (Thursday 16 May), and the smileys are taking over a brand new venue. The Deck at the National Theatre, London, will welcome leading figures in the profession and representatives of some of the UK’s largest household…

The purchase of the practice had been approved by her financial advisor and her bank but throughout, she said, she had a nagging feeling it was not going to deliver the money she needed, despite the prediction of an annual profit of £140,000. How did she avoid acquiring a millstone around her neck? She was…

The UK’s first find-a-dentist service, that allows new patients to find and book dental appointments online, has joined forces with Practice Plan to promote its revolutionary service. Taking advantage of the public’s increasing use of the internet to research and find local services, www.toothpick.com enables new patients to find a dentist, review available appointment times…

Family doctors have already warned of being turned into ‘de facto border guards’, after hints that health professionals will be required to check eligibility for treatment. Some experts have described such proposals as unworkable and it is likely to be many months before concrete proposals are unveiled. As a result, the Immigration Bill is not…

He was demonised as the surgeon brought in to amputate large parts of the network. But he was not a surgeon; he was not a medical doctor. He had a PhD in chemistry and had worked for ICI. He was not a railwayman, as many of those running the railways in those days were. He…

Periodontist Gita Auplish works part time at Bandlish & Auplish at 20 Harley Street and is also a part-time consultant in periodontology at King’s College Hospital and will be on the sofa on  ITV's Daybreak every morning. Beings screened to coincide with National Smile Month (20 May-20 June), topics covered will include a look at…

Digital photography is a fantastic tool and offers great advantages for both dentist and patient. Both are able to store high-quality post and pre-treatment images. Pre-treatment photos allow patients to comprehend what is required and their subsequent treatment plan, similarly they provide an excellent record for dentists and offer an invaluable comparison as the treatment…

Here, Kevin Lewis offers his view We may not yet have entered the new world, but dentists in England and, to an extent, Wales are a step closer to it. On 1 April, the NHS Commissioning Board for England swung into action, a couple of months after another publication had burst onto the bestsellers list.…

A meeting of the British Dental Association’s (BDA’s) General Dental Practice Committee (GDPC) on Friday 10 May voted unanimously in favour of the motion: 'The General Dental Practice Committee condemns the flawed decision making process and subsequent decision of the General Dental Council to introduce direct access on the basis that its decision fails to…

Dental practices often have little knowledge of their competitors internal working arrangements or profitability; however, it’s only by knowing how other practices are performing that you can determine whether your own business performance is as good as it should be. This  is called ‘benchmarking,’ which compares the data from your practice with that of other…

Henry’s Angels, a group of volunteers from Henry Schein UK, supported the MoonWalk London this weekend (Saturday 11 May). The MoonWalk is organised by breast cancer grant making charity, walkthewalk, which has to date raised over £84 million for vital breast cancer care and cancer research causes. The MoonWalk London is already in its 16th…

Personalised computer models predicting how diseases will affect individual patients according to their lifestyle, medical condition and physical make-up could revolutionise the future of healthcare. Clinicians and scientists from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sheffield are at the forefront of the development of the ‘virtual physiological human’ – where over…