Sebastian Evans

It’s not good news for dentists as the latest piece of research by the British Dental Health Foundation suggests that visiting the dentist makes people more nervous than snakes or spiders. The research echoes last month’s Adult Dental Health Survey which revealed half of adults – especially women – were classified as having moderate to…

A new survey suggests that patient loyalty may be on the wane – and that patients who are dissatisfied with their care might vote with their feet without dentists knowing. Dental corporate Oasis, which commissioned the survey, has warned that the results indicate a changing public attitude towards dentistry. Barely more than a third of…

Here is an opportunity to secure a place at the World Aesthetic Congress (WAC) 2011 – simply answer a question and enter the prize draw. The leading aesthetic dentistry event – taking place 17-18 June – offers an unrivalled speaker line-up, live demos, first-class business and clinical sessions, live demonstrations and the biggest ever trade…

Effective daily oral care at home can help maintain a healthy mouth and reduce the onset of oral diseases. Most dental professionals agree that not all patients have an optimum daily oral care regime and recommend adjuncts to their patient’s oral care routine at home. It is essential for dental professionals to know which toothpaste…

Everyone talks about meeting and exceeding customers’ expectations yet it is rarely achieved. Despite it being inexpensive to implement and requiring only the most basic of approaches, it is rarely well executed in practice in this country. However achieving true customer satisfaction probably generates the greatest return of any sales or marketing activity a practice…

Homeopathy is the school of medicine founded over 200 years’ ago by the German physician and scientist Dr Samuel Hahnemann. It works on the principle that ‘like cures like’, so an illness is treated with a medicine which could produce similar symptoms in a healthy person. The active ingredients are given in a highly dilute…

A new study finds evidence of the earliest recorded toothache. Missing teeth and the decayed jawbone of a 275-million year old reptile have pushed back the earliest evidence of tooth decay some 200 million years, according to this recent study. The new findings also highlight the downside of the evolutionary shift from loosely fitted teeth…

Dentists are likely to tread cautiously before joining David Cameron’s ‘Big Society’ by delivering care as ‘mutuals’ – outside the NHS. Health secretary, Andrew Lansley, announced a £10 million expansion of existing plans for healthcare staff to ‘become their own bosses’, agreeing contracts with the NHS as social enterprises. The ‘Right to Provide’ was a…

Ellis Paul, editor-in-chief of leading journal for private dentists, Private Dentistry, has been awarded Fellowship by Election from the Board of the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK). Russ Ladwa, dean of the FGDP (UK), told Ellis: ‘It is obvious for all to see that you have exceptional enthusiasm for your profession, and a willingness…

Hollyoaks’ star, Ashley Taylor Dawson, was among a clutch of celebs who enjoyed some VIP dental treatment this week. The actor, who plays Darren in the soap, took time out of a busy filming schedule to join other stars from the series at Malmaison in Liverpool where VIP Smiles and Bolton’s Freshdental dentist, Monik Vasant,…

Hollyoaks’ star, Ashley Taylor Dawson, was among a clutch of celebs who enjoyed some VIP dental treatment this week. The actor, who plays Darren in the soap, took time out of a busy filming schedule to join other stars from the series at Malmaison in Liverpool where VIP Smiles and Bolton’s Freshdental dentist, Monik Vasant,…

Alcohol is an attributable burden of incidence of cancer in eight European countries. A study – published on bmj.com – reveals that almost one in ten (9.6%) cancers in men and three in ten (3%) cancers in women in Western Europe is caused by former and current alcohol consumption. It focuses on France, Italy, Spain,…

In the case described in this article, the patient – a 28-year-old who happens herself to be a dentist – is concerned about the wear in her front teeth which has been progressing. Figure 1: Central incisors with tooth wear at the incisor edges: sharp-angled corners of the crowns, discoloration of the tissues along the…

The Peninsula Dental School has appointed Dr Mona Nasser as clinical lecturer in evidence-based dentistry. Previously, Dr Nasser had been a research associate and methodologist in the Department of Health Information at the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), the German equivalent of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in…

Brits will eat more than 80 million Easter eggs over the holiday – little realising the link between excessive sugar consumption and gum disease, warn dental experts. People may know that too much sugar is bad for teeth but many will be oblivious to the damage it causes gums and the rest of the body, say…