Mr Sebastian Evans

Since this is the time for new year resolutions, here’s one for you. The current default ‘gloom and doom’ state of the UK media may be squeezing every last drop of confidence and optimism out of the UK economy, but I would suggest that we could collectively agree to take no notice of all this…

In 1997, Simon Hill was lining up against England at the national stadium in Cardiff to win his 12th cap for Wales. In February 2009 he will be returning to the national stadium – this time with a group of dentists to watch Wales play England in the Six Nations Championship. The game will be…

In 1997, Simon Hill was lining up against England at the national stadium in Cardiff to win his 12th cap for Wales. In February 2009 he will be returning to the national stadium – this time with a group of dentists to watch Wales play England in the Six Nations Championship. The game will be…

Some of the profession’s leading voices have warned that although the government may not be planning a move to core NHS dental services, private practice may still be the only option for most dentists. The revelations came at a debate held in Westminster last month that rounded off a turbulent year in dentistry. The debate,…

Zoe Salmon, the Bangor-born former Blue Peter presenter and Miss Northern Ireland, has been blasted by the British Dental Health Foundation for her recent remark that she has ‘naturally white teeth’ and hasn’t been to the dentist for 10 years. Concerned that the children’s TV star should be ‘setting an example’, the Foundation’s chief executive…

Scientists have developed a new dental device that allows patients to see plaque build-up in the mouth before it is visible to the human eye. The toothbrush-sized product – created at the University of Liverpool  – has a blue light at its tip, which, when shone around the mouth and viewed through yellow glasses with…

A dental professor is questioning a study linking mouthwashes containing alcohol to an increased risk of mouth cancer. Prof Damien Walmsley, scientific adviser to the British Dental Association (BDHF) was commenting on recent research that said the most popular mouthwashes contained higher concentrations of alcohol than drinks such as wine or beer. The findings were…

To get your practice off to great start this New Year, Independent Seminars would like to offer Dentistry.co.uk readers 10 free one-day seminar places. The seminars you can choose from include top speakers Galip Gurel, Chris Barrow, John Cranham, Larry Rosenthal, Linda Greenwall and Lorenzo Vanini. In light of the current economic climate, this is…

Dental patients picked Casablanca as having the best ever smooch on the big screen. The kiss between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in the 1942 wartime classic topped a poll of 500 female patients conducted by the Kissdental private dental practice in Manchester. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslett’s encounter in Titanic came second, while Omar…

A Warwick dentist was killed in a bus crash over Christmas. Gary Porter died in Morocco on 27 December after the vehicle he and his wife were travelling in went off the road. The 31-year-old lived in the town with his wife Natalie and had worked at the Cape Road Dental Surgery for three years.…

The tooth fairy will be leaving less cash under the pillows of tooth-losing children, new research reveals. Dental payment plan provider, Denplan, commissioned the survey which reveals that a third of parents in Great Britain said that the credit crunch would impact payments left by the tooth fairy by up to 10%. That’s an estimated…

The pain-relieving effects of nitrous oxide – laughing gas – may be enhanced by suggestion or hypnosis, according to a new study by UCL (University College London). The study’s findings – that people are more suggestible under the gas – mean that dental patients may benefit from being coached to relax while undergoing sedation. Nitrous…

In my capacity as director of private sector development for IDH, I have to be careful to make my articles as impartial as possible. A recent comment in my blog, about practice goodwill prices falling in the post-recession economy, brought a few squeaks of protest from dentists who accused me of trying to ‘influence market…

New strict legislation introduced this month concerning dentists who provide dental treatment outside NHS regulations may prove a ‘disincentive to professionals who are considering working in Wales’. That’s according to the British Dental Association’s Director for Wales, Stuart Geddes. He claims that the new red tape – which came into force on 1 January –…

Patients in north east Essex, who have not seen a dentist for two years, are being offered free ‘course of treatment’ vouchers. It’s the brainchild of North East Essex Primary Care Trust (PCT) who claim to be the only trust making this offer. And on the streets, the PCT will be offering free assessments to…

The incoming deputy chief dental officer Sue Gregory has earned an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s honours list. She receives it for ‘services to the NHS’ in her role as dental public health consultant for NHS Bedfordshire. Dr Sue Gregory, who has worked in Bedfordshire since 1977, will take up her new post as…

Eddie Crouch has scored a victory against the government after it failed to overturn a court ruling that protects the employment rights of dentists. The Department of Health lost its appeal against a judicial review won by Dr Eddie Crouch, which forced it to remove controversial legislation from its NHS dental contract. The Birmingham orthodontist…

The Smile Awards shortlist for 2009 has just been announced. Entries closed at the end of November and the chairman of the judging panel, Dr Christopher Orr, said: ‘The level of interest in these awards has been much greater than we expected. We had a high number of entries, which is wonderful for the inaugural…

Dundee & Strathclyde Universities won a 2008 Medical Futures Innovation Award. The Dentistry and Oral Health category is supported by the British Dental Association and is sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK CH).   The Medical Futures Innovation Awards are a UK-based not-for-profit awards process designed to help healthcare professionals and academics turn their ideas…