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COVID-19 – what should dental teams do after a positive test?

With confusing guidance over how to react to COVID-19, Priya Sharma clarifies how dental practices should react. The COVID-19 pandemic…

Dentistry

100 seconds with…Amber Ojak

Amber Ojak explains why she came up with her EME approach to oral hygiene education and how she hopes it…

Oral health

‘We’ve got to discover uncomfortable truths’ – calls to address inequalities in dentistry

Dental experts are calling for urgent action towards improving equality and diversity in dentistry.  As part of yesterday’s Westminster Health…

Dentistry

Prosthodontips – digital dentistry in complex cases

In the first of a regular series, Josh Sharpling and Zo Ali give readers their prosthodontips. In the first column…

Laboratory

England’s CDO cuts fallow time requirements for dental practices

All four of the UK’s chief dental officers have accepted recommendations cutting fallow time to potentially 10 minutes. Put together…

Dentistry

Five ways to optimise the teeth whitening boom

With the demand for teeth whitening booming, Optident have come up with five simple ways to keep up with the…

Aesthetic dentistry

Dental care didn’t meet ‘needs and demands’ during lockdown

Leading dental figures say dentistry ‘desperately needs’ more advice on what teams can do in practice to secure a future…

Dentistry

Avant Garde Dentistry – world class training for ambitious dentists looking to join the top 1% of cosmetic dentistry

Avant Garde Dentistry combines cutting-edge technology, innovative treatment workflows and obsessive focus on the patient journey to guarantee world-class results,…

Aesthetic dentistry

The trials and tribulations of returning to practice after COVID-19

With many in dentistry back in the practice, Amber Ojak explains how the COVID-19 experience has changed the way hygienists…

Oral health

Dental nurses urged to speak out about lockdown experience

Dental nurses are being asked to share their lockdown experiences and grievances by the chief dental officer. On behalf of…

Dentistry

Shaking up oral health – with Zaki Kanaan

In the first of a series of articles, we speak to leading clinicians in dentistry about how Clinisept+ Mouthwash is…

Implant dentistry

Welsh dentists given critical worker status to continue working during lockdown

Vaughan Gething MS has confirmed the Welsh government considers dentists as critical workers, allowing them to continue working during lockdown.…

Dentistry

Helen Rodd MBE – a life in dentistry

After receiving an MBE, we speak to Helen Rodd about her life in dentistry and her views on the current…

Dentistry

Oral B’s Sensitivity & Gum Calm toothpaste – reaction from the profession

Last month, Oral-B unveiled its latest toothpaste – Sensitivity & Gum Calm – aimed at those suffering from dental sensitivity…

Oral health

Managing halitosis

Join Milad Shadrooh, AKA The Singing Dentist, for a free webinar discussing managing halitosis on Tuesday 27 October at 19:00.…

Oral health

Oral Health Awards 2020 – the finalists

Here’s the shortlist for the Oral Health Awards 2020. Are you one of our finalists? Best Hygienist Catherine Mawson –…

Oral health

Calls for government to ban lip fillers and Botox for teenagers

Members of Parliament are calling for a ban on Botox and lip fillers for those under the age of 18. …

Aesthetic dentistry

How patient finance is helping dentistry on the road to recovery

Eleanor Young speaks to Jay Parekh about how Medenta patient finance is helping their practice on the road to recovery.…

Orthodontics

Adjunctive techniques for mouth cancer screening

Andrew Osafo reviews vital tissue staining, chemiluminescence and autofluorescence as aids to mouth cancer screening. As dental professionals, we are…

Oral health