Sebastian Evans

A dental school has scooped funding for its innovative research into preventive methods that may change the face of NHS dentistry. The Oral Health Unit (OHU) based at the University of Manchester won significant funding to run a study which focuses on prevention rather than treatment. The £1.7 million study will see if a prevention…

Dental legal experts have launched an online podcast to help dental professionals facing complaints made about them to the General Dental Council (GDC). The podcast is the brainwave of the Dental Defence Union (DDU) and comes at a time when the number of complaints about dental professionals considered by the GDC at their early stages…

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The recent dental nursing conference has been hailed a great success with record numbers of delegates attending. The 2009 National Dental Nursing Conference, which was held at the Cheltenham Chase Hotel near Cheltenham 23-24 October 2009 was the biggest and most successful to date. A record number of delegates attended the Conference – sponsored by…

The BDTA Dental Showcase is the venue for Dentaid’s launch of its new fundraising appeal which aims to stage one charity event for every day of 2010. Diane Platt, the charity’s head of fundraising, explained: ‘It is very simple. We are asking our supporters to pick one date on the calendar and commit to do…

It was a stint in the States that set Adrian Watts up for life as a restorative specialist in private practice. The Bristol-based dentist spent a year studying at Harvard as part of the prestigious ITI (International Team for Implantology) scholarship programme, and still describes it – some seven years later – as a ‘fantastic…

Visitors to the BDTA Dental Showcase event are invited to attend a free seminar, entitled ‘The Business of Dentistry’, presented by leaders in business management in association with the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK) (stand N09). The seminar will take place 9-m to 10am on Friday 13 November in the lecture theatre within the…

Congratulations to all those practices, teams and dentists who were shortlisted for the 2009 Dentistry Awards, as announced last month. Now all eyes are on the ceremony itself, to be held on Friday 4 December at the Athena in Leicester, a fabulous art-deco venue which will be decked out in a 70s entertainment theme. And…

Dentists have warned of an ‘unacceptable and growing chasm’ between those with good and poor dental health. The British Dental Association’s (BDA’s) Oral Health Inequalities Policy – published today – highlights the differences in social groups and calls for a more preventive approach to dentistry. The differences are particularly marked among children, it says –…

The annual retention fee (ARF) payment period for the UK’s 36,900 registered dentists has kicked off in the run up to the 31 December deadline. The General Dental Council (GDC) has taken the decision not to increase the fee this year. It remains at £438. The GDC hopes dentists will take advantage of the opportunity…

An increasing number of dental patients understand how vital it is to spot – and then report – early signs of mouth cancer. And dentists are the the perfect ‘frontline troops’ to lead the way on this at the soft-tissue examination stage. That’s according to oral and maxillofacial surgeon Iain Hutchinson who launched the Mouth…

The government is to make concessions to dentists’ leaders over the details of controversial access contracts. The Department of Health will shortly announce changes to the draft contracts developed by the dental access team led by Dr Mike Warburton, and released by some PCTs to the general profession. It follows calls by the British Dental…

The annual retention fee (ARF) payment period for the UK’s 36,900 registered dentists has kicked off in the run up to the 31 December deadline. The General Dental Council (GDC) took a decision to freeze the fee this year – remaining at £438. The GDC is hoping dentists will take advantage of the opportunity to…

A new study suggests that low doses of radiation from dental X-rays can trigger heart disease and strokes. A team, led by Dr Mark Little at Imperial College London, constructed a mathematical model to find the risks associated with low background levels of radiation. The team discovered that radiation kills monocytes, a type of white…

The march of the seasons is upon us and, as a consequence of a late summer holiday, I have come back to find the trees turning brown – although the weather is now doing what it should have done about two months ago. The change of the seasons also reminds us that it is now…

Compare and contrast – do you remember those words in essay questions? Well I want to compare and contrast the Steele report with the Warburton contract in respect of having a list of patients. Both say that dentists should have lists of patients; both believe that dentists should be paid for these patients. But there…