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Private dentistry in demand as buyers go for growth

Paul Graham analyses the market trends to explain the increasing interest in buying into private dentistry. The private dentistry market…

Private Practice

Getting started in clinical dental photography

Ash Parmar provides guidance on how to incorporate digital dental photography into your clinical practice. Photography is an essential part…

Dentistry

Mouth Cancer Quality Improvement Tool makes detecting oral cancer easier

Health Education and Improvement Wales is launching its Mouth Cancer Quality Improvement Tool to help dental teams identify oral cancer.…

Dentistry

Switzerland best place to live for dentists and dental nurses

Switzerland has topped the polls as the best place to live and work for dentists, according to Totally Money. The…

Dentistry

Cancer risk top incentive to give up smoking and drinking

Cancer risk is the number one incentive given for quitting smoking and heavy drinking, new research shows. Half (50%) of smokers…

Oral health

Get more for your money

To find dental equipment that is truly great value for money, Justin Hind explains why you need to look further…

Dentistry

Get instant messaging throughout the practice

Keeping team members up to date and informed is easier thanks to Dentally’s new instant messaging system. Dentally has unveiled plans…

Dentistry

UCL Eastman researchers recognised for linking gum disease with diabetes

Professor Francesco D’Aiuto and his periodontics team from UCL Eastman have won the 2019 Clinical Research Award from the American Academy…

Dentistry

Harry Singhs – facial aesthetics, a new learning pathway

Harry Singh considers the synergistic role of the dentist and facial aesthetics clinicians, and how this can be leveraged to…

Aesthetic dentistry

Time to end ‘bidding wars’ for NHS orthodontics

The British Dental Association (BDA) is calling for an end to competitive tendering for NHS orthodontics. Commissioning orthodontic services across the West…

Orthodontics

Fillings not the best way to tackle tooth decay in children

There’s no evidence to suggest conventional fillings are more successful than sealing decay into teeth. Findings from a major dental…

Dentistry

Doug Watt talks about his experience with a digital dentistry workflow

https://www.facebook.com/HenryScheinUK/videos/408555473421942/?v=408555473421942 Doug Watt discusses his journey incorporating a digital dentistry workflow and the practice’s experience with it. When Dr Watt…

Private Practice

Study day hosted by ONG for dental nurses and therapists

The Orthodontic National Group (ONG) has announced the date for its Spring study day next year. The event will take place on…

Orthodontics

Mouth cancer diagnosis – be safe not sorry

In support of Mouth Cancer Action Month, Sue N’Jie highlights the dentolegal risks of missing a mouth cancer diagnosis. Mouth…

Dentistry

What happened at the Digital Dentistry World Tour?

As Planmeca’s Digital Dentistry World Tour 2019 touched down in London, Seb Evans went along to find out why digital…

Dentistry

Lincolnshire hospitals going smoke free in 2020

A new ban for Lincolnshire hospitals will stop staff, patients and visitors from smoking on hospital grounds in 2020. From 6 January…

Dentistry

Back to the brilliant basics

Charlotte Lloyd reports back from the Practice Plan Brilliant Basics Workshop Tour 2019/2020. Kicking off its Brilliant Basics workshop tour…

Dentistry

The fluoride varnish taste test

Hussein Hassanali assesses the effectiveness and value of four preventive fluoride varnish applications for children. I don’t need to lay…

Dentistry

Artisan or entrepreneur?

Artisan or entrepreneur – what are modern-day dentists, Alun Rees questions. I enjoyed two thought-provoking conversations with dental technicians recently.…

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