Sebastian Evans

Dental practices should not have to pay to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the British Dental Association (BDA) has argued. The BDA’s submission to the CQC’s consultation on fees emphasises the financial pressures confronting dental practice, the failure of the CQC regime to add any value and the considerable time practices must invest…

Well we’re only part way into January and I can pat myself on the back. One resolution gets a big fat tick – ‘put my needs first’. Having just spent a blissfully self-indulgent weekend at Champneys Health Spa, I feel refreshed, re-energised and really excited about 2011. Sprawling in the Jacuzzi, my mind drifted to…

New research reveals that the UK’s older population is doing all it can to live a healthy lifestyle. More than three quarters (78%) of people aged 70 and over actively try to keep fit and healthy. People are also more likely to take personal responsibility for their health as they grow older. 19% of those…

The oral health campaign in Wales to get children under three to brush their teeth properly is being expanded to nurseries and playgroups. All Community Dental Services in Wales are now delivering the Designed to Smile (D2S) scheme, Health Minister Edwina Hart has announced. More than 30,000 children are now benefiting from the scheme, delivered…

Two young dentists have organised a dental careers day. West Midlands dentists, Jatinder Ubhi and Amit Jilka, say they believe ‘the young dentist of today is faced with many career choices’ but felt it was ‘not always easy knowing where to get the information from and who to turn to’. The duo felt that previous…

A dentist has created an iPhone app that tracks food eaten as well as they exercise used to burn it off. US periodontist, Brian Young, launched his new iPhone app – Tracknburn – just before Christmas and it immediately sold in excess of 1,700 by Boxing Day. It enables users to keep track of the food they…

Smile for London is a new initiative aiming t deliver creative content to London Underground commuters. It starts today (Monday) with film, art and animation on digital platform screens across key transport locations on weekday mornings and evenings during the rush hour commute. Oddly enough, it coincides with Blue Monday, believed by psychologists to be…

Professor Chris Franklin was awarded an OBE for services to healthcare in the New Year honours list. He is professor associate at the University of Sheffield’s School of Clinical Dentistry and is member of the Board of the Faculty of Medicine and the Board of Dental Studies. He is regional postgraduate dental dean for South…

The Institute of Hypnotherapy for Medical and Dental Practice (IHMDP) is putting on two courses specifically for dentists and the dental team. They will be taught by Dr John Butler who has more than 20 years experience, and has created the IHMDP. Hypnodontics Foundation Course (1 Day)This course can be taken by dentists and the…

A couple exchanged smile makeovers before exchanging wedding rings when they tied the knot recently. While most brides to-be are getting excited about the big day, newly engaged Caroline Hardy, 30, a rugby player and PE teacher from Ashford in Kent, was instead facing it with some dread. The thought of having to smile for…

Spending on NHS dentistry accounted for the clear majority of the £5.7 billion UK primary care dentistry market value in 2009/10, confirming the message that state spend outgrew private spending during the second half of the 2000s. ”Greater fiscal restraint for the NHS now puts NHS dentistry on a much more modest spending trend going…

Smoking accounts for up to 60% of the gender gap in death rates across Europe, and kills twice as many men as alcohol, reveals research published online in Tobacco Control. The reasons why women have been outliving men in developed European countries since the mid to late 18th century, in some cases, have been hotly…