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COVID-19 – dental students in Wales likely to graduate this year

Welsh dental students have been reassured and told they are likely to reach the required standards expected of a graduate…

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Redeployment as part of the COVID support team

Menna Shykhon discusses her experience working as part of the COVID support team during the recent height of the pandemic.…

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‘It’s been a massive boost’ – dental student Owen Hughes discusses his experience on The Voice UK

Final year dental student Owen Hughes talks us through his journey into music and how he landed himself an audition…

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Using social media to promote the oral health agenda

Social media can help promote the preventative message dental teams try to get across to patients. Melica Bastani explains how…

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Applications for dental degrees spike amidst pandemic uncertainty

More than 20,000 extra applicants have signed up for dentistry and medicine courses this year, it has been revealed. Latest…

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Dentinet – the dental students who are changing the way students learn

Three dental students from the University of Manchester talk us through their pandemic project, Dentinet, and how they’re helping to…

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COVID-19 – re-deployment to the maternity department

After redeployment to the maternity department during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sanjana Sudarshan explains what she will take back to working…

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Dental students in Scotland to receive bursaries in face of delayed graduation

Bursaries will be offered to struggling dental students in Scotland in response to COVID-19 disruptions. Calls were made to help…

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Redeployment to track and trace – a foundation dentist’s experience

Roshni Ruparelia gives her experience after helping out with the track and trace efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Graduating from…

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Achieving the perfect colour match for your restorations

Hussein Hassanali gives some quick tips to help you make sure you achieve the perfect colour match for your restorations.…

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Why I believe many of us are competing to treat the wrong patients

Rather than chasing new patients, maybe we should be looking to treat our current patients, Tif Qureshi says. All around…

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Out of office – Samuel McHale on football, books and sustainable eating

Samuel McHale talks us through his favourite books, his love for exercise and why everybody should make an effort to…

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90 seconds with…Jon Nicholas

Jon Nicholas talks to us about learning the piano and gives his very unique strangest experience in dentistry. More about…

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A dental student’s guide to…common medications (part three)

Following on from part two exploring common medications dentists may come across, Hannah Hook and Frances Evelegh look into high blood…

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Calls for answers over future of dental students in Scotland

Questions have been fired at the government in Scotland following concerns over whether dental school students will graduate in 2021.…

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What is four-handed dentistry?

Justin Underwood explains why four-handed dentistry is so important and what’s involved. Which group of verbs summarise the typical working…

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To polish or not to polish? Prophylaxis during a pandemic

Rohini Pancholi explores ways we can reduce aerosols and therefore the spread of COVID-19 when we polish patients’ teeth. The…

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COVID-19 dental diaries – ’16 ambulances lined up with patients waiting to be seen’

Balal Khan is a final year dental student. He talks us through what it is like having a part-time job…

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Seeing the image your patient sees

Patients may be seeing a completely different image to what you’re seeing, Chloe Davies and Ian Hutchinson say. When you…

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