Sebastian Evans

One of the great advantages of being a dentist is the freedom that your career provides you. As the majority of dentists will end up working for themselves in practice as a principal or associate, there is often a lot of flexibility around when you take your holidays and how long they may last. While…

Are you seeing wear and destruction that you can’t explain? Are you seeing signs of potential occlusal trauma yet cannot identify the underlying cause? Have you placed that beautiful smile design, only to have the patient come back just weeks later with a chip or fracture? Do your patients have extreme clinical conditions that dictate…

The British Dental Association (BDA) has welcomed Health minister Lord Darzi’s plans for significant changes to the way the NHS in England will work in the future. They include a commitment to preventive, high quality care and the recognition that target-driven systems are not the way forward. Lord Darzi’s report, High Quality Care For All,…

You’re wanted to provide feedback on a new range of toothpastes and mouthwash. The new dental products allow people to repair daily wear caused by the acid in plaque before it leads to decay. BlanX Labaratories are appealing for surgeries to trial the BioRepair formula, which uses bio-active micro-crystals to bond with the teeth’s natural…

Oasis Healthcare and IDH are among five suitors considering a bid for cosmetic dentistry chain James Hull Associates. As reported by www.telegraph.co.uk, private equity firms Candover and GI Partners are also believed to have submitted successful first-round bids, alongside one other private equity group. James Hull (JHA), which is jointly owned by finance house Hutton…

A ‘natural Botox’ product is being created by a Scottish start-up firm in a multi-million pound deal with a European medical device manufacturer. Burdica Biomed is part of the Edinburgh Pre-Incubator Scheme and will provide the base material for an injectable gel filler that can be used for lip enhancement and wrinkle reduction. The product…

Julian English, Dentistry magazine’s managing editor has won the BDTA golf trophy for the third time. English, also FMC’s editorial director, competed in the 2008 BDTA Annual Conference Golf Tournament, which took place at the PGA National Ireland, a course of international stature within the grounds of Palmerstown House, on Saturday 21 June. Twenty golfers…

The GDC is encouraging unregistered dental technicians and nurses to attend registration drop-in days. To call yourself a dental technician or dental nurse from 30 July 2008, you will need to be registered with the GDC (General Dental Council). If you don’t have a current qualification and plan to register on the basis of a…

A brand is a symbol of what your dental practice is all about. It creates associations and expectations of what your dental practice has to offer. It encompasses your logo, fonts, colour schemes, sounds, smells, as well as the values you uphold in your business. What are you trying to tell your customers about what…

This website is all about interaction, and with that in mind Preventive Dentistry\.co\.uk is pleased to bring you the first edition of a new feature called ‘Have your say’. The format is simple: We’ll ask a question about a subject of the hour, you simply comment on the story by clicking on the ‘add comment’…

A unique course, designed for dentists who want to learn the ultimate smile design through a live patient hands-on experience, is being held next month – led by the world-renowned lecturer Dr Larry Rosenthal. The Aesthetic Advantage hands-on Continuum will be held over five days – Friday 11-Sunday 13 July and Friday 18-Sat 19 July…

Michael Watson starts a new series of columns for Dentistry magazine in which he answers a question on the lips of many dentists… Dentists ask: ‘What are the government’s intentions for NHS dentistry? Surely in five years time it will all be private for the majority of people?’ The reply you will get from the…

John Chope explains why the GDC decided to return to its old policy of prescribing the lists of duties for its registrants… Part of the GDC’s project to egister the whole dental team included ditching the statutory prescribed lists of duties for DCPs. These were very rigid lists locked up by cumbersome primary legislation. Instead,…

Watchdogs have slammed an advert for private insurance that implied children’s dentistry was not covered by the NHS. HSA’s health plans advert showed the thoughts of a woman in the car with her family, wondering how she could afford new glasses for herself, keep up with her children’s dental check-ups and cope if her husband’s…

The blue curing light used to harden dental fillings also may stunt tumour growth, researchers have found. ‘The light sends wavelengths of blue-violet light to the composite, which triggers hardening,’ said Alpesh Patel, of the Medical College of Georgia. ‘The light-waves produce free radicals that activate the catalyst and speed up polymerization of the composite…

A crematorium has been forced to spend £600,000 filtering toxic fumes from the high number of people being cremated with a mouthful of fillings. With mercury emissions set to rise due to large numbers of people in Fife, Scotland, being cremated with mercury amalgam teeth fillings, Kirkcaldy Crematorium felt the need for the £600,000 makeover.…

Parents are set to pay out £23\.4 million this year on ‘tooth fairy’ payouts despite the bite of the credit crunch. With food and fuel prices soaring, research by the Children’s Mutual show the average tooth earns a child £1.22 – a rise of 16% in the last year, 4.8 times higher than inflation. In…

UCLA researchers have, for the first time, discovered that people with sleep apnoea show tissue loss in brain regions that help store memory. Sleep apnoea occurs when a blocked airway repeatedly halts the sleeper’s breathing, resulting in loud bursts of snoring and chronic daytime fatigue. Memory loss and difficulty focusing are also common complaints. Prior…