Paediatric Dentistry

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Expanding your practice: everyday paediatric dentistry made easy
King’s College London introduces its Expanding Your Practice: Everyday Paediatric Dentistry Made Easy workshop, focusing on a minimal intervention approach to…
Dentistry
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‘Freedom to do the right thing’ – providing private dentistry to children
Ulrika Skalberg explains how children fit into the transition from NHS to private dentistry and her motives for handing back…
NHS to Private
Managing paediatric patients before hospital and community services assessment
Dr Myria Akhtar details how GDPs can manage paediatric patients who are waiting for an assessment by hospital and community…
Dentistry
Why are there no dentists for children?
As Kunal Patel opens his latest practice – Love Teeth Kids – we find out what made him focus on…
Dentistry
Dentistry Cribs – Happy Kids Dental
  In this episode of Dentistry Cribs, we visit an award-winning paediatric dental practice, Happy Kids Dental. Happy Kids Dental,…
Dentistry
Northern Ireland – significant drop in dental treatments among children compared to pre-pandemic levels
The number of children receiving dental treatments beyond basic exams in Northern Ireland is down by 37% when compared to…
Dentistry
The hidden magic behind every successful paediatric appointment
Paediatric specialist Kunal Patel reveals how his approach to treating children is enhancing the dental experience for the next generation…
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Animal therapy in practice reduces dental fear among children
Animal-assisted therapy is a good way to calm down children who have a phobia of going to the dentist. This…
Dentistry
Dentistry in Jersey – mounting fears over waiting times for children
Calls are being made to fix the ‘unworkable’ waiting times at a key hospital for dentistry on a channel island. …
Dentistry
Dental news you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… No dental practices…
Dentistry
Specialists in paediatric dentistry ‘should be trebled’ to meet UK demands
The UK is significantly lacking specialists in paediatric dentistry, it has been suggested. In a new report into the dental…
Dentistry
Paediatric care – setting the foundation
Yasamin Yousefi and Ama Salaudeen discuss the crisis in children’s tooth extractions and how one initiative can help dental teams…
Oral health
Tackling children’s oral health in response COVID-19
Moira Crawford summarises a webinar that brought an expert panel together to discuss children’s oral health in the UK. Children’s…
Oral health
A ‘new model’ of paediatric dentistry operating in Leeds
Caroline Holland introduces an innovative way of delivering paediatric dentistry to children in the UK, without having to attend the…
Dentistry
BSPD welcomes dental advice in report on children’s health
The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry (BSPD) has praised a report into children’s health across the UK. The latest ‘State…
Dentistry
BSPD membership open to all GDC registrants who are interested in oral health of children
The British Society of Paediatric Dentistry has voted to make full membership of the Society open to all GDC registrants who…
Dentistry
Incoming BSPD president outlines her mission
  The dental needs of children with craniofacial deformities are a priority for Sarah McKaig, the incoming president of BSPD…
Dentistry
Professor Richard Welbury awarded CBE
Professor Richard Welbury has been recognised in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honours An unstinting commitment to identifying and supporting children at risk…
Dentistry
FGDP(UK) publishes new Standards in Dentistry
The Faculty of General Dental Practice (FGDP(UK)) has published its second edition of Standards in Dentistry. Its publication aims to sets the standards…
Dentistry
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