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Dentists are urgently needed to check and fix the teeth of the capital’s homeless this Christmas. The check ups will be a part of the medical services on offer to London’s homeless people, many of whom may not have access to professional dental care for some time. For more than 38 years, Crisis has opened…
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A new iPhone application called Star Teeth iPhone app for kids was released on itunes AppStore last week. The original idea of this iphone app came from one of the employees of the development company Fungamental Labs. This mother-of-two has lots of experience with everyday small fights she has with her kids in the bathroom…
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Take care of your teeth from the inside! Good nutrition makes a huge difference to the health of the gums and without good gums, you won’t hang on to your teeth. Oral Care Complex, from Viridian Nutrition, is specifically formulated to support the underlying health of the mouth and gums. It is a combination of…
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The British Society of Periodontology (BSP) has announced that dental hygienists and dental therapists have been given full membership status. This was agreed at the annual general meeting held on Friday 24 September 2010. This will be automatically conferred on existing associate hygienist members and be offered to all new members at the point of…
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A fundraising book launched during a nationwide mouth cancer campaign last year has won a top prize as the ‘best charitable initiative’. Brenda’s Easy to Swallow Cookbook, published by the Mouth Cancer Foundation, has scooped the highly commended prize, in the best charitable initiative category, at the Pfizer Excellence in Oncology Awards 2010. The book, which…
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The FGDP(UK) and the AOG are holding a joint conference with the Indian Dental Association in Delhi on the 20th of February 2011. Dean, Dr Russ Ladwa, says: ‘The Faculty and the Royal College of Surgeons of England have had a long-standing relationship with the Asian subcontinent. We have undertaken numerous educational courses, held joint conferences…
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A fundraising book launched during a nationwide mouth cancer campaign last year has won a top prize as the ‘best charitable initiative’. Brenda’s Easy to Swallow Cookbook, published by the Mouth Cancer Foundation, has scooped the highly commended prize, in the best charitable initiative category, at the Pfizer Excellence in Oncology Awards 2010. The book, which…
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The British Society of Periodontology (BSP) has announced that dental hygienists and dental therapists have been given full membership status. This was agreed at the annual general meeting held on Friday 24 September 2010. This will be automatically conferred on existing associate hygienist members and be offered to all new members at the point of…
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It is November and I have gone for the Christmas look. Red wires with a splash of silver and gold hooks – I could hang baubles from them. The subject of fashion was bought up in a conversation recently and I thought about how I try to get colours that match a lot of my…
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A two-day hands-on restorative update for dental therapists takes place this month. The format of the day will start with an interactive seminar to get everyone up to speed with all the new developments, both with materials and techniques in the field of cosmetic and restorative dentistry. Most of the day will be hands on…
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A seminar to help dental professionals get more commercially focused is taking place on Wednesday 24 November at the Hilton Warwick hotel. Accountancy practice TGFP, Smith & Williamson Financial Services, legal firm Alsters Kelley and Lloyds TSB Commercial have combined forces to deliver an intensive evening seminar to offer a consolidation of expertise to dental…
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A two-day hands-on restorative update for dental therapists takes place this month. The format of the day will start with an interactive seminar to get everyone up to speed with all the new developments, both with materials and techniques in the field of cosmetic and restorative dentistry. Most of the day will be hands on…
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Edward Lynch, voted the top most influential figure within UK dentistry in our Top 50 poll, has scooped another award. Dr Lynch is head of Warwick Dentistry, part of Warwick Medical School, and has been honoured with accredited membership of the prestigious American Society for Dental Aesthetics (ASDA). Fewer than 200 educators, innovators and practitioners worldwide…
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A competition with a prize of a life-changing makeover is up for grabs. A dentist and an aesthetic surgeon have joined forces to create a ‘fairytale in a recession’ with help from a whole host of professions and businesses in the North East. Dentistry award-winner Mike Heads, of the Dental Healthcare Centre and Cleveland Cosmetic…
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) must explain calculations behind proposed fee scale to register dental practices, warns the British Dental Association (BDA). The BDA is calling on the CQC to explain the calculations behind its proposed fee scale to register dental practices, following concerns that single practice owners could end up subsidising owners of larger…
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More than £1 million has been left to Kings College London by a former student who studied dentistry in the 1940s. Diana Trebble (formerly Jennings) left two thirds of her estate to King’s and her gift will be used to create an open scholarship for postgraduate dental students called the ‘Diana Trebble PhD Scholarship’. Diana…
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The Northern Ireland Branch of the BDA is holding an art and craft exhibition and auction in aid of the Benevolent Fund. All the pieces have been created and donated by branch members their families and friends. The pieces range from pictures in oil, acrylic and watercolour to bronzes, wood carvings, walking sticks and patchwork…
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