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Overweight or obese individuals made up 78% of confirmed COVID-19 cases

People who were overweight or obese made up 78% of confirmed COVID-19 infections – prompting calls for the food industry…

Dentistry

3shape launches first online digital dentistry Global Symposium

3shape introduces its mammoth 24h Global Symposium, completely free for dental professionals to attend. A 24-hour marathon of webinars for…

Private Practice

Lack of funding leaves 51% of Scottish dental practices vulnerable after lockdown

More than half (57%) of practices say they would consider remaining closed after COVID-19 if a more viable SDR funding…

Dentistry

Wuhan healthcare workers with correct PPE did not contract COVID-19, study finds

Frontline healthcare workers in Wuhan who were appropriately protected did not contract COVID-19, new research has revealed. In a study…

Dentistry

Three in five of UK public support calls to extend sugar tax

It has been revealed that the majority (61%) of the UK support the extension of the current sugar tax to…

Dentistry

90 seconds during lockdown with…Zara Shirvani

CPD, webinars and taking up baking – Zara Shirvani tells us what she’s been up to during the COVID-19 lockdown.…

Oral health

Becoming a UDC – a practice manager’s experience

Practice manager Lauren Davis speaks to {my}dentist about working in a UDC and where she sees dentistry heading in the…

Dentistry

One dentist’s experience setting up a dental clinic in Kashmir

Dr Thanaa Abdullah talks about her experience helping to create a dental department at a hospital in Kashmir. Since qualifying…

Dentistry

Public attitudes on returning to dentistry post COVID-19 – the practice

As dental teams start to open their doors for face-to-face treatment, Michael Heffernan discusses what practices need to do to…

Dentistry

Thermal imaging puts dentists in the picture as they get back to practice

Andrew Roberts introduces an innovative new way of checking patients for COVID-19 symptoms before they enter the practice. The green…

Dentistry

The hygienist’s blog – a great initiative, here to stay

With lockdown keeping patients away, Claire Berry introduces the innovative virtual online oral health clinic from the BSDHT and Oral-B.…

Oral health

Millennials spend three times national average on dental treatment

Millennials exceed all other generations when it comes to splashing out on their smiles, a new study has revealed.  Adults…

Dentistry

90 seconds during lockdown with…Lottie Manahan

Lottie Manahan explains how her lockdown has involved baking, eating, cooking, repeat. More about Lottie Manahan Lottie Manahan studied at…

Oral health

‘Can does not mean should’: leading dental figure calls for profession to pace itself

A dentist is calling on dental teams to offer treatment at their own pace as practices across England start to…

Dentistry

Clinical Skills Day – Biomin – the smart bioactive glass toothpaste

The inaugural Clinical Skills Day on Friday 12 June is your opportunity to see Swati Nehete discuss the smart bioactive…

Oral health

‘There will be no new normal after lockdown’

Richard Scarborough speaks to Guy Deeming, owner of Queensway Orthodontics and former director for clinical practice at the British Orthodontic…

Dentistry

Dentists must discover their own pace when adjusting to the new normal

  Shaz Memon explains how staying digitally active as practices start reopening will help keep you up to date and…

Dentistry

The future of hygienists and therapists post COVID-19

Amber Ojak explains how hygienists and therapists can grab this opportunity to change the way dentistry is delivered to patients.…

Oral health

90 seconds during lockdown with…Jaswinder Gill

Jaswinder Gill explains how he has kept his practices going using video consultations, whilst he has also been busy attending…

Orthodontics