Mr Sebastian Evans

People who travel abroad for dental treatment should do their homework beforehand or risk problems later, warns Which?. The campaigning magazine and website surveyed around 300 UK residents who went overseas for medical treatment in the past five years to find that 18% had later run into problems. The report – at www.which.co.uk – cites…

Researchers in the States have developed a lifelike dental training simulator that allows student to ‘feel’ an on-screen 3D mouth. Using haptic virtual reality, the tools simulate the sensation of touching, poking and scraping in the virtual mouth. PerioSim has been developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s colleges of dentistry and engineering and…

Happy Easter to everyone, I hope you enjoy the somewhat confusing and early Bank Holiday and eat plenty of chocolate eggs, although doing so will certainly upset Dr Cockcroft\. (Eating eggs that is, not enjoying your holiday). This being the third editor’s blog since the launch of the website, I will be taking a look…

A London dentist administered root canal treatment on an operating table made from bales of hay. Bizarre perhaps, except for the fact that ‘in the dentist’s chair’ was Siberian tiger Tazmin, the makeshift surgery was at Dartmoor Zoo, and administering treatment was Peter Kertesz, the only dental surgeon in the UK to have been awarded…

The importance of close-up dental photography • Clinical photographs form a part of the patient’s clinical record. This is particularly helpful for the dentist because it helps to plan treatment and reminds both the dentist and patient of where they started from. If clinical photographs were taken before every irreversible and invasive procedure some potential…

Eight in 10 dentists believe women look after their teeth better than men, according to a new poll. A study of 100 dentists and 4,064 members of the public also found that one in 10 (8%) people never visit the dentist. One in five (19%) of all the people surveyed admitted they did not have…

Senior dental leaders from around the world recently attended a leadership programme organised by the Global Child Dental Health Taskforce (GCDHT) at King’s to tackle the issue of global child dental disease. The GCDHT, led by Professor Raman Bedi, Head of the Centre for International Child Oral Health at King’s, was originally set up as…

A company has launched a video-based e-learning site for healthcare professionals. The site will provide training from dental and medical professional bodies, and there is already a contribution from the Northern Ireland Medical and Dental Training Agency. The courses are available for download to the user’s PC from the website – www.edcastmedical.com – with prices…

Starbucks coffee chain aims to capture a unique warmth that sets it apart from the first two places in most peoples lives – work and home. Emulate their marketing plan and you could make your practice the third place, too. Did you know Starbucks customers return 18 times a month? What do its managers know…

If you are anything like me (and a good proportion of the British population) you will have a cold, had one or been fighting one off for the last couple of months. Yes, it is that time of year when our bodies seem to give up on being healthy, along with the sun and its…

Toddlers in Wales are to get free toothbrushes and toothpaste to stem ‘unacceptable’ rates of dental decay. A programme called Designed to Smile will also teach children the rights and wrongs of teeth cleaning. Youngsters aged four to six in north Wales and large parts of south east Wales are to be targeted first in…

A touch of magic is the theme to a study day dedicated to the art of ‘speaking without words’ being staged by the Faculty of General Dental Practice (UK). All dental, medical and surgical healthcare professionals are invited to this FGDP (UK) annual study day being held at The Royal College of Surgeons ofEngland in…

Belfast company StreamOn has launched a video-based e-learning site for healthcare professionals, including dentists. Courses are available for download to the user’s PC from the website www.edcastmedical.com, with prices starting at £20 sterling. The site will provide training from dental and medical professional bodies, commencing at the launch with content from the Northern Ireland Medical…

A week is a long time in the dental profession; seven days, 168 hours, 10,080 minutes; a lot can happen in that time, and it has definitely been one of those weeks. It occurs to me now that this dramatic introduction might seem out of place in a blog such as this but this week…

Cosmetic dentistry in the UK has seen an explosion in demand in the last 10 years and, if this follows the US model, then we can expect further – but things are a bit different here. UK patients tend to seek more of a natural look and, although the most popular shades are still very…

Cosmetic dentistry in the UK has seen an explosion in demand in the last 10 years and, if this follows the US model, then we can expect further – but things are a bit different here. UK patients tend to seek more of a natural look and, although the most popular shades are still very…

Dental technicians are suggesting a ‘passport’ for dental restorations imported from abroad to ensure that the US incidents of lead found in foreign crowns do not happen here. They maintain this will ensure patient protection with ‘passports’ carrying clarification of: • who made the restoration • where the restoration was made • When the restoration…

Adult special needs patients in Cork are going without basic dental care because there is no facility to provide a general anaesthetic service, it has been reported. Fine Gael Cork South Central TD Deirdre Clune said relatively minor dental treatment, such as fillings, can be traumatic for some adult special needs patients and can lead…

Almost one-third of children and teenagers show dental erosion, a US study has found. Dental researcher Bennett Amaechi of the University of Texas, San Antonio, and colleagues at Indiana University and the University of California at San Francisco examined 900 Texas middle school students ages 10 to 14 and found a 30% prevalence rate of…