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The first applications to national recruitment for dental foundation training posts in England and Wales closed on Friday 14 October 2011. And dentists welcomed the move as a ‘positive milestone’ in the reform of the process. More than 1,100 individuals applied for places and all those eligible will be interviewed during November by trained and…
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A new poll reveals that one in five parents have no intention of providing sex education to their children. The study, undertaken by oral health charity the British Dental Health Foundation, suggests that too many parents and young people are unaware of one of the most common sexually transmitted infections – the human papilloma virus…
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The General Dental Council (GDC) will be at the BSDHT event at Bournemouth International Conference Centre on 18 and 19 November 2011 to give delegates an opportunity to meet staff and hear the latest developments from their regulator. The GDC currently has 6,000 dental hygienists on its register and 1,800 dental therapists. Whether a dental…
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Roger Matthews, chief dental officer with Denplan, is optimistic about the state of the UK dentistry profession. Flying in the face of last week’s comments made in a blog by the BDA’s Susie Sanderson last week, he said: ‘Don’t ever tell me this is not a good time to be doing dentistry.’ Susie, chair of…
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Periproducts was in the pink this Showcase as it launched its Go Pink campaign to raise funds for a breast cancer charity. With Stand R01A was piled high with pretty pink cup cakes and flutes of pink bubbly and the marketing team wearing complementary pink ties and brooches, marketing experts Ann Generlich and Jane Jaroudi…
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A sonic toothbrush that breaks the mould in toothbrush development was launched at Showcase yesterday (Thursday). Curaprox announced the UK launch of its Hydrosonic, developed with a very soft head based on filament technology known as Curen. Building upon its success with soft-headed manual toothbrushes, international sales director, Richard Thomas, explained how the company has…
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A sonic toothbrush that breaks the mould in toothbrush development was launched at Showcase yesterday (Thursday). Curaprox announced the UK launch of its Hydrosonic, developed with a very soft head based on filament technology known as Curen. Building upon its success with soft-headed manual toothbrushes, international sales director, Richard Thomas, explained how the company has…
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Heart Your Smile, a campaign to boost confidence in the UK dental profession will launch at the BDTA Dental Showcase today (Friday). A manifesto for change will be revealed by James Goolnik, in his opening address at the Showcase in Birmingham. This will be followed by an invitation for dental professionals to join the movement…
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This was the question that Canadian ministers’ civil servants had to answer in 1994 rather than the more obvious ‘what can we cut?’ Back then Canada faced a similar public sector debt problem to the UK’s at present. In three years they had eliminated the deficit and two years later repaid a third of their…
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Dental charity, Bridge2Aid, is giving away five spa breaks-for-two every day of Showcase for delegates who make a contribution to the charity. Anyone committing to a monthly £10 direct debit in aid of its drive to help the oral health of villagers in poor areas of Tanzania, can pick a piece of a giant jigsaw…
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Periproducts was in the pink this Showcase as it launched its Go Pink campaign to raise funds for a breast cancer charity. With Stand R01A was piled high with pretty pink cup cakes and flutes of pink bubbly and the marketing team wearing complementary pink ties and brooches, marketing experts Ann Generlich and Jane Jaroudi…
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The Mouth Cancer Action Month campaign, dedicated to raising awareness of the killer disease, takes place throughout November. Run by the British Dental Health Foundation, in association with Denplan, it calls on all dental professionals to help educate members of the general public about a disease that kills more people in the UK than…
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Osborne Dental has been named the BDA Good Practice Scheme Practice of the Year for 2011. The team from Jesmond, Newcastle, will be presented with their award at the 2011 BDA Honours and Awards Dinner, which takes place in London on 24 November. Osborne Dental triumphed after a detailed assessment process that included a judge’s…
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…Could have fooled me! I have just seen a case arriving at the GDC against an RDN that carried out some impressions on a friend and did some tooth whitening in 2009! Now, I am not going to embarrass this registrant by naming them and I really feel for her, but some may argue that…
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On the eve of Bruxism Awareness Week (24-30 October 2011), founders of the Saving Teeth Awareness Campaign are calling for greater recognition of the impact of stress on dental health. In some patients, stress causes grinding and clenching of teeth, known as Bruxism, and this in turn can cause cracks to develop. It is thought…
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The Mouth Cancer Action Month campaign, dedicated to raising awareness of the killer disease, takes place throughout November. Run by the British Dental Health Foundation, in association with Denplan, it calls on all dental professionals to help educate members of the general public about a disease that kills more people in the UK than testicular…
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…Could have fooled me! I have just seen a case arriving at the GDC against an RDN that carried out some impressions on a friend and did some tooth whitening in 2009! Now, I am not going to embarrass this registrant by naming them and I really feel for her, but some may argue that…
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Osborne Dental has been named the BDA Good Practice Scheme Practice of the Year for 2011. The team from Jesmond, Newcastle, will be presented with their award at the 2011 BDA Honours and Awards Dinner, which takes place in London on 24 November. Osborne Dental triumphed after a detailed assessment process that included a judge’s…
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