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New dental skills laboratory opens

The Royal Hampshire County Hospital has just opened a £300,000 dental skills laboratory as part of a multi-professional simulation suite. The suite comprises state of the art medical and dental simulation equipment with 13 dental stations supplied by Kavo. Every unit has been set up for four handed dentistry and individual audio visual links to…

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New DCP category for Dentistry Awards

Dentistry Awards are proud to announce a new category: Best DCP! If you have a key dental care professional that deserves recognition for being a valuable member of your team, why not nominate them by entering the Best DCP category. If they are a key player in your practice or doing some great work, why not…

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Text messages help smokers quit

Motivational text messages sent to smokers’ mobile phones can double their chances of giving up tobacco, reported The Guardian. The story is based on a large UK study that looked at whether a six-month programme of supportive text messages could help smokers quit. It compared a group who received positive messages to another group who…

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Dream dental double bill at a city near you

After a sell-out Profitable Perio meetings series in Belfast and Glasgow earlier this year, Philips is staging a series of regional meetings on the theme of Prevention is better than cure – periodontitis vs peri-implantitis. For one week in November 2011, the roadshow will visit Manchester (7), Birmingham (8), Cambridge (9), Oxford (10) and Bristol (11),…

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Students welcome ‘stop gap’ in study fees

This week’s announcement that 2012-13 entrants will see their year five fees fully covered by the bursary is a good short-term solution that provides breathing space for a longer-term solution to be agreed. That’s the view of the British Dental Association (BDA), which has been lobbying for what looked like a huge gap in student…

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44 per cent of phone calls fail to reach practice team

New research reveals the alarming truth about the numbers of practices who greet patients with an answering machine, an engaged tone, or even worse, they simply leave the phone to ring. The research was conducted by independent market research company Converso as part of a Software of Excellence customer satisfaction survey and these statistics were…

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Queen’s dental school under review

The General Dental Council (GDC) has carried out an inspection of Queen’s University Belfast dental school following concerns about the level of resources being dedicated to teaching dentistry. This followed chief executive and registrar of the GDC, Evlynne Gilvarry, writing to Queen’s vice chancellor about the issue. When asked about the inspection, a university spokesperson…

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New dental centre opens

Ivoclar Vivadent is one of the world’s leading dental companies. The company’s success is based on a comprehensive portfolio of products and systems, strong research and development capabilities and a clear commitment to training and further education. Almost 200 dental professionals from across the UK attended the launch of the recently expanded and renovated Ivoclar…

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Henry Schein celebrates 20th anniversary in UK

Henry Schein, the largest provider of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, commemorated the company’s 20th anniversary in the UK recently. It took place at Henry Schein’s UK headquarters in Gillingham, Kent. Henry Schein, a US-based company, entered the UK in 1991 as a dental consumables business, and has evolved over the past…

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Poor oral care can impact on your sex life

A recent study has revealed erectile dysfunction can be linked to gum disease. The research, carried out on 70 male subjects, showed a correlation between gum disease and the ability to achieve an erection. The data indicates that as the severity of erectile dysfunction increased, so did the prevalence of chronic periodontitis (gum disease). Overall,…

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Poor oral care can impact on your sex life

A recent study has revealed erectile dysfunction can be linked to gum disease. The research, carried out on 70 male subjects, showed a correlation between gum disease and the ability to achieve an erection. The data indicates that as the severity of erectile dysfunction increased, so did the prevalence of chronic periodontitis (gum disease). Overall,…

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Henry Schein celebrates 20th anniversary in UK

Henry Schein, the largest provider of health care products and services to office-based practitioners, commemorated the company’s 20th anniversary in the UK recently. It took place at Henry Schein’s UK headquarters in Gillingham, Kent. Henry Schein, a US-based company, entered the UK in 1991 as a dental consumables business, and has evolved over the past…

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Guitar-playing dentist calms actress’s fear

Actress Jennifer Aniston is playing a dentist who sexually harasses her employees in her latest film, Horrible Bosses. And in an interview in the States recently, she revealed all about the dentist she visits. He plays guitar for his patients, including her! www.okmagazine.com reports: ‘As she promoted her new movie… the conversation turned towards dentists……

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Baby toothbrush innovator wins entrepreneur award

A mum who founded a company that manufactures innovative toothbrushes for babies has scooped Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. Child oral health company Brush-Baby is celebrating success after its founder Dominique Tillen was awarded an Entrepreneur of the Year award for her pioneering and innovative work launching Brush-Baby. Brush-Baby founder, Dominique Tillen’s daughter, Lulu, inspired…

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Last day to save £100 on Ethics in Aesthetics!

Undisputed dental heavyweights, Dr Paul Tipton and Dr Gary Unterbrink, go head to head this July in what’s set to be one heated aesthetics debate.  And dentists can save £100 if they book by the end of today (Tuesday 28 June). Four topics will be discussed and debated in 90-minute sessions during which both speakers…

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Myth-busting facts about gum disease

Growing numbers of people are suffering from gum disease because of complacency caused by dental hygiene myths, warn oral health experts. Too many people have been lulled into a false sense of security by common misconceptions, say the makers of Eludril mouthwash and Elgydium toothpaste. ‘We need to dispel these myths if we are to avoid the…

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Baby toothbrush innovator wins entrepreneur award

A mum who founded a company that manufactures innovative toothbrushes for babies has scooped Entrepreneur of the Year 2011. Child oral health company Brush-Baby is celebrating success after its founder Dominique Tillen was awarded an Entrepreneur of the Year award for her pioneering and innovative work launching Brush-Baby. Brush-Baby founder, Dominique Tillen’s daughter, Lulu, inspired…


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