Sebastian Evans

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Consumer Healthcare recently hosted an oral healthcare professional symposium to mark the inauguration of GSK’s Oral Healthcare Innovation Centre in Weybridge, UK, currently the largest oral care centre for innovation in Europe. The symposium which was titled ‘Oral Healthcare: From Molecule to Market’ aimed to explore new therapies and research areas at the…

Coach Chris Barrow does the maths. Dear coach Can you give us an indication as to how many days/sessions per week of hygiene time is needed on a GDP working four days a week using hygiene-led appointments where possible please? This will help us zone our appointment book. Dear client It’s all in the maths:…

A 22-year-old student has had her top design of the ‘dental experience’ hailed as ‘future thinking’ by judges. Lottie Duke, a final year Design for Industry student at Northumbria Univeristy, won first prize – an internship with GlaxoSmithKline worth £3,750 – for her entry in the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and…

Children in dental practice waiting rooms can while away their time puzzling out the reasons for trying to achieve good oral health. Children up to the age of 12 are invited to create a design which helps other young people know that having healthy teeth and gums can help a healthy body. The competition is…

We live in a world of evidence-based medicine and the internet now enables us to access the latest evidence from every scientific institution. But, despite this, our beliefs still differ and the pattern of clinical practice is one of great variety, both in relation to time and geographical location. The changes are often cyclical with…

Dental therapists gathered in Inverness for the first time for their annual scientific meeting. Some 20 members of the Scottish group of the British Association of Dental Therapists met at the Centre of Health Science at Raigmore Hospital. Organiser Morag Mackinnon, the association’s Scottish representative, said it was important to hold this year’s meeting at…

Dental experts are blasting the claim that fruit smoothies are a healthy option. The British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF) is warning that if consumed too frequently they could cause an ‘erosion epidemic’. The Foundation said that while fruit smoothies undoubtedly hold some benefits by aiding the consumption of fruit, the damage they could do to…

I’m here again with another blog\. This week it’s a look at WAC’s Hygienist programme, some news, and a bit about the recent buzz on the forum\. Read on MacDuff. So I’m back again, and I am feeling nervous. Actually a bit more than nervous, one might even say, ‘bricking it’. However, there is no…

Teams from the world of dentistry converged on Yorkshire last weekend to brave the Three Peaks Challenge in aid of Bridge2aid. Like the new set of TV’s Gladiators, the FMC team (publishers of Dentistry.co.uk) were superfit, oiled up and ready for action. Luke Hand, Michelle McHutchison, Tim Molony, James Howell and Dentistry.co.uk’s very own Charles…

Most people have one teacher who inspired them to go that extra mile. Someone who spurred them on when exams looked just that little bit too hard or studying was getting too tedious. Subjects with a practical element like dentistry particularly benefit from talented teachers and the Dental Defence Union are again rewarding these hardworking…

So much is written about websites these days that it is increasingly hard to sort the wheat from the chaff and work out exactly what sort of approach would work best for you and your practice. This isn’t helped by all the technical jargon which tends to be spouted at will by those with any…

We live in unpredictable times, especially for those of us dentists who are aspiring to do much more with our careers and practices. Dentistry is in an unsettled environment where we are taking on more of the new innovative treatments like facial aesthetic treatments; or we have situations where dentists are unable to cope with…

Gruesome photos showing how deadly a habit smoking can be will be slapped on every cigarette packet sold in the UK from 30 September. And the move is being welcomed by the Mouth Cancer Foundation who are ‘delighted that the UK is introducing picture warnings on tobacco packs’. After a public consultation last year, 15…

Health minister Ann Keen will address next month’s local dental committees conference. The conference – at Kensington Town Hall in central London on 13 June – will be chaired by Birmingham orthodontist Eddie Crouch. Earlier this year he won a High Court case in February to have a termination clause in his contract with South…

Chris Barrow with a tip on turning a trip to the hygienist into a big event. Dear Coach… I’d like to share a thought that occurred to me last week. I had our therapist do a little air abrasion and scaling on me before my business-card photo session. It’s not often that i get a…