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Doctify for dentists

Are your patients always getting an engaged phone line or calling the practice out of hours? Doctify explains how it could…

Private Practice

How does working as a dentist now compare with previous generations?

With pay cuts, rapidly rising goodwill valuations and huge student debts, Michael Watson compares the dental working lives of millennials…

Blog

Four reasons to use Fendermate

Predictable contact and anatomic shape One piece design No cervical overhang Designed for minimally invasive dentistry. For more information visit www.directadental.se.…

Dentistry

Do you know this critical number?

Measuring and knowing the numbers in your practice is key, says Ashley Latter. But principals are often unaware of one…

Private Practice

LLOC pioneers the printing of bespoke 3D lingual trays

Customisation has reached new heights at the London Lingual Orthodontic Clinic where a bespoke lingual brace system has been devised…

Orthodontics

Tooth decay number one reason children visit hospitals in Wales

Tooth decay is the number one reason children attend hospitals in Wales, a new study has shown. The study has found…

Dentistry

BDIA Dental Showcase to provide platform for CDO for England

BDIA Dental Showcase is working with the Office of the Chief Dental Officer for England (OCDO), to promote and raise…

Dentistry

What support does Dentex offer?

Pat Langley explains what support Dentex offers practice principals. For more information about Dentex visit www.dentexhealth.co.uk.

Dentistry

Aquacare – or is it the dental ‘Nespresso’…?

Switch between endodontics/hygiene/implants/MI/orthodontics/paediatric/periodontics/restorative procedures in just one second. You’ll use your Aquacare every day on every patient. If you don’t…

Aesthetic dentistry

NHS dental practices not accepting new patients

Almost half of NHS dental practices aren’t accepting new adult patients and only three-fifths are accepting new child patients. That’s…

Dentistry

Help to improve your patients’ oral care routines

Are you looking for ways to help improve your patients’ current oral care routines? Listerine Professional is now offering a…

Oral health

JCVI using flawed evidence to reject HPV vaccinations

The BDA has accused the JCVI of using flawed modelling as a basis to reject HPV vaccinations in all children.…

Dentistry

Selfies could enhance post-treatment experience, study says

‭A new study has found that selfies can be used as an effective tool to enhance patients’ post-treatment experience, and alert the…

Aesthetic dentistry

Smile design laboratory

Jackie Jones gives her experience using Knight Dental smile design laboratory. For more information visit www.knightdentaldesign.co.uk.

Aesthetic dentistry

Belfast named as the city with the sweetest tooth

Belfast has topped a survey to find out which British city has the sweetest tooth, with 83% of its residents…

Oral health

Take the hassle out of implant training with Dentale

If you’re thinking of beginning a journey in implant dentistry, Dentale explains why its courses could be suited perfectly for you.…

Implant dentistry

How long will the NHS ‘national disgrace’ continue?

How long will dentists be able to continue ‘choosing’ which patients they see, Michael Watson questions. The headline figures, published by…

Blog

Treatment is not enough

Kimberley Lloyd-Rees explains some of the difficulties older patients can have when staying on top of their oral health. Gingival recession is multifactorial, but…

Oral health

Free dental plan health check for your practice

Simon Reynolds, from Patient Plan Direct, offers a free dental plan health check, to check your practice’s dental plan strategy…

Dentistry