Sebastian Evans

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…

Figures show that drug and alcohol addiction is increasing within a medical profession renowned for failing to seek help when needed most. In light of this, a pilot practitioner health programme has opened in London, offering help to dentists and doctors who are under pressure… It is easy to speculate why dentists are prime candidates…

Glasgow’s ‘Curry King’ and inspirational entrepreneur Charan Gill MBE will be headlining the speakers’ list at this year’s BDA Conference. The annual conference is being held in June at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow and the booking opens this Friday (5 January). And Scotland’s very own shipyard worker-turned-multi-millionaire restaurateur will open the…

Women taking tablets to protect their bones from osteoporosis could be at risk of serious jaw damage, claim researchers. A study suggests that drugs such as Fosamax could be linked to a condition that can lead to long-term infection or even destruction of the jawbone. As many as one in 25 users could be at…

A Newcastle dentist has been made an MBE for his services to NHS dentistry. Shiv Pabary, 48, a general dental practitioner and a dental advisor for Gateshead and South Tyneside Primary Care Trusts, said he had a ‘magical week’ when he found out about his appearance in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. He qualified…

Dentistry columnist Kevin Lewis has been awarded a Fellowship from the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK). The Director of Dental Protection’s latest Fellowship complements the earlier fellowship awarded last year from the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The presentation was made during the first diplomats’ ceremony jointly…

The British Dental Association (BDA) has welcomed the recognition of the excellence of research at UK dental schools. The findings of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise confirm the high standard of dental research in the UK, with all 14 institutions whose staff were subject to the assessment recognised for the world-leading originality, significance and rigour…

Dentists are overcharging patients by up to £109 million a year, by calling them back too often and splitting up treatments, according to the Conservatives. Analysis of appointments earlier this year suggested too many healthy patients were being recalled for check up and that treatments were being separated into separate courses, with separate costs. Calculations by…

The University of Manchester’s School of Dentistry has been ranked the top dental school in the country for high-quality research. Results from the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) placed the school first in the UK in terms of the quality of its academic research. Thirty per cent of the School’s researchers were deemed to carry…

A cup of coffee a day could nearly halve the risk of cancers affecting the mouth and throat, according to new research. Japanese scientists who tracked patients’ drinking habits for 13 years found those downing at least one cup a day were much less likely to get tumours than those who hardly ever drank coffee. The…

New research reveals that a protein associated with inflammation (called CRP) that’s elevated in people at risk for heart disease may be found in infected gums. The study, by UK and Italian scientists, is published online in The FASEB Journal and shows that proper dental hygiene should reduce the risk of atherosclerosis, stroke and heart…

The British Dental Association (BDA) has written to the South Central Strategic Health Authority expressing strong support for its proposal to fluoridate the water in Southampton and parts of South West Hampshire. The BDA believes that fluoridation of the water supply at the proposed one part per million is a safe and effective method of…

A website that has only been up and running since the summer scooped top prize in the Dentistry.co.uk Website Awards. The result was announced at the Dentistry Awards in Leicester’s Athena on Friday. Dentistry.co.uk was looking for a website most likely to generate new patients for the practice – and Dereham Dental Health in Dereham…

As the economy sinks further into the gloom and we buckle up for a period of austerity, we may need to re-think how we approach the festive season. So I thought I would start the ball rolling. Turkey and stuffingFed up with all that junk mail and all those new guidelines that keep dropping through…

Most of the articles that I have written over the years and the lectures I have given usually contain the theme of ‘art’. It is by design that I have done this. It is because I believe what we do in aesthetic dentistry is truly an art form. And, to be consistent, I teach this…