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Over £150,000 awarded in grants to help improve oral health

The Faculty of Dental Surgery has awarded more than £150,000 in grants for dental care professionals to undertake research. Some…

Oral health

More get up and go

Align Technology is hailing unprecedented early interest in its just-launched aesthetic teeth straightening product designed specifically for general dentists Since…

Orthodontics

Efficiently risk assessing children

Shivana Anand and Rebecca Northover highlight the signs that better classify caries risk in paediatric patients. Risk assessing paediatric patients…

Dentistry

Be on the square

Mark Skimming, owner and principal of the award-winning practice Dentistry On the Square tells us about constantly evolving and developing…

Private Features

From NHS to private: a shared vision for success

Just over a decade ago, The Priors Dental Practice’s principal Mark Emms and practice manager Lindsey Edwards made the decision…

Dentistry Features

Dentists’ income drops by 15.7% in the last five years

NHS contract holders’ average taxable income in England and Wales dropped 15.7% in the last five years to £117,400 in…

Dentistry

New Good Practitioner’s Guide to Periodontology launched

The British Society of Periodontology (BSP) has launched its new Good Practitioner’s Guide to Periodontology. The launch, which took place…

Oral health

Implant surgeon cycling 450 miles for charity

Mark Vardon-Odonkor, an implant surgeon from London, will cycle 450 miles across the Pyrenees to raise money for Bridge2aid. This…

Implant dentistry

Five top marketing approaches for your dental practice

Les Jones, creative director from Practice Plan, discusses five top tips on how to approach your marketing activity for your…

Dentistry Features

Stranger Things star opens up about cleidocranial dysplasia

Gaten Matarazzo, one of the stars of the Netflix series, Stranger Things, is raising awareness of the condition cleidocranial dysplasia. The…

Celebrity News

Free NHS dentistry insights to support you and your practice for the future

Find out what Practice Plan will be offering at this year’s BDIA Dental Showcase. Throughout the three-day BDIA Dental Showcase,…

Dentistry Features

Nasal spray sedative more effective with children

Nasal spray sedative may be more effective with children than traditional methods, new research has shown. A study, published in Anesthesia…

Dentistry

Putting the mouth back in the body

Last week’s Health and Care Innovation Expo 2016 highlighted some of the biggest health and care issues and developments. One…

Oral health

Reputation, reputation, reputation

Jonathan Fine points out the importance of protecting your reputation online. ‘Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft…

Dentistry

Case of the month: implant analysis

Images provided Cone Beam CT images in the bone window. Axial, coronal and sagittal planes. Clinical information Implant analysis requested.…

Implant dentistry

Achieve your resolutions

Dentists’ Provident gives advice on how to kick start a positive stage in your year, and presents top tips to help…

Young Dentist

Blood Cancer Awareness Month

Blood cancer is the third biggest killer in the UK, according to Henry Smith MP, with 230,000 people currently affected…

Laboratory

Sticks and stones

Kevin Lewis reviews the latest ‘dental horror chronicles’ published in the media. Was it something we said, perhaps? Or is…

Dentistry

There should be no more part-funded NHS treatments

It is time for the NHS to list what is available on the NHS, and what will be privately funded,…

Dentistry