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Hypnotherapy for the dental team

The Institute of Hypnotherapy for Medical and Dental Practice (IHMDP) is running courses for dental professionals in dental hypnosis. • Dental Hypnosis 1:  Technical Foundations     13 June 2012 – Central London• Dental Hypnosis 2:  Applied Clinical Skills      14 June 2012 – Central London Technical Foundations Course (1 Day)This course can be taken by dentists and…

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Dental discovery to benefit forensic experts

Forensic practitioners and anthropologists will be among those to benefit from new University of Kent research on the dental development of humans. The research, conducted by Dr Patrick Mahoney at the University’s School of Anthropology and Conservation and published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, has established links between tooth eruption and enamel growth…

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Certificate in implant dentistry course opens in Dublin

A new course aimed squarely at Irish dentists looking to branch out into implants will launch in Dublin this April. The course, arranged by the Irish Faculty of Primary Dental Care (IFPDC), is a first-class course on implantology, specifically aimed at primary care clinicians who want to diversify their skill sets. A team of experts…

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Isolating plaque culprit could spell relief for gum disease

The mechanism that oral bacteria use to form communities in the mouth has been identified, leading to hopes that plaque could one day be prevented by medication. Researchers from the University of Bristol hope that stripping some pathogenic mouth bacteria of the ‘access key’ they use to form communities with other strains could help prevent…

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Excellent access

Use: Tepe Angle is an easy-to-use interdental brush developed for excellent access to all interdental spaces.USP: Tepe Angle is the new addition to the popular family of Tepe interdental brushes, now offering a longer handle and a choice of angles and texture.Special features: The slender brush head is angled for easy reach in difficult-to-reach areas.…

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Clearly effective

Grandtec is a glass fibre strand that consists of multiple, densely packed, parallel running glass fibres impregnated with a light-curing resin. Grandtec can be shaped before polymerisation, cured with conventional polymerisation devices and is compatible with all standard, light-curing composites and flowables.The glass fibres coalesce with the composite used during polymerisation, wherein a flowable is…

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UK dental rules control ‘risks from legionella’

Thorough guidance on decontamination in primary dental care should control any risks from legionella. That’s according to the Department of Health today in light of a case of an elderly woman who died from Legionnaire’s disease after she contracted the infection from a dental practice in Italy. The DH issued a statement today after the…

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Elvis Presley’s dental model for sale

A dental model of Elvis Presley’s mouth complete with an extra crown is set to fetch £10,000 when it goes to auction this month. The model was made for the star by former Memphis dentist Henry J Weiss, Presley’s dentist until 1971, who affectionately called it the ‘King’s Crown’. Dr Weiss always kept an extra…

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IFPDC certificate in implant dentistry

The IFPDC is delighted to offer a first-class course on implantology in dentistry, specifically aimed at the primary care clinician who wants to diversify and increase their skill set. A team of experts and specialists in implantology will act as tutors on the course. Drs Anne O’Donoghue, Maher Kemmoona and Frank Houston, and Prof. Brian…

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Severe dental erosion linked to eating disorders

Eating disorders can be physically and emotionally destructive, but the results of a new clinical study indicate oral health is also destroyed by the condition. The study by the University of Bergen in Norway revealed patients with an eating disorder – such as Anorexia and Bulimia – had significantly more dental health problems than those…

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Where is the future of your practice?

In the past few years with the economic downturn, many dental practices have been put at risk and many have found it increasingly difficult to increase cosmetic production. Increasing case acceptance is not enough. ‘Acceptance’ assumes that the patient has already asked for a case presentation, or is at least somewhat interested in having a…

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Gum disease can break your heart

Fresh breath is a must on Valentine’s Day and not just for kissing – gum disease and mouth bacteria are increasingly being linked to heart problems, warn oral health experts from Eludril and Elgydium. Scientists have published a number of theories that link gum disease with heart conditions, say the manufacturers of Eludril medicinal mouthwash…

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Dental spend suffers as medical card treatments fall

The Health Service Executive (HSE) spent around €11.5m less on dental care for medical card patients last year than it promised, according to figures released last month. The Irish Dental Association (IDA) has called the underspend ‘an outrage’, and called for an investigation with immediate effect. The government had pledged to spend €63m in 2011,…

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Team education on offer at Cork Dental School

Two courses on offer at Cork University Dental School and Hospital next month will bring crucial education to dental team members. The University will run the courses on Saturday 24 March, and split the content between a continuing education seminar for hygienists, and one for nurses with all members of the dental team. The two…

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Dental spend suffers as medical card treatments fall

The Health Service Executive (HSE) spent around €11.5m less on dental care for medical card patients last year than it promised, according to figures released last month. The Irish Dental Association (IDA) has called the underspend ‘an outrage’, and called for an investigation with immediate effect. The government had pledged to spend €63m in 2011,…

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Ireland’s dentists onto a winner

The inaugural Irish Dentistry awards went off with a bang last month, welcoming almost 300 dentists and their teams to Dublin for an unforgettable evening. The Irish Dentistry awards were set up to recognise the very best that dentistry in Ireland has to offer, and they did not disappoint. Dentists and their practices flocked from…

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Possible link between gum disease and bowel cancer

The bacteria associated with the most common cause of tooth loss in adults could be a pre-curser for the development of bowel cancer, according to a team of scientists. The link comes as scientists at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute in America found an abnormally large number of Fusobacterium – a bacterium…

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Biodenta at Dentistry LIVE – new speakers!

Independent Seminars is thrilled to announce that two new speakers will be joining the fantastic line-up of world renowned names at Dentistry LIVE. Holger Zipprich and Urs Brodbeck will present ‘Contemporary Implant Systems: Clinical, biological and mechanical aspects’. Restorations in the anterior, aesthetic zone present significant challenges in both the surgical and prosthetic phases of…

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Stop bacteria falling in with the wrong crowd

Stripping some mouth bacteria of their access key to other pathogenic oral bacteria could help prevent gum disease and tooth loss. The study, published in the journal Microbiology suggests this bacterial access key could be a drug target for people who are at high risk of developing gum disease. Oral bacteria called Treponema denticola frequently…


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