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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. 

The public perception of NHS dentistry

According to the latest NHS Confidence Monitor survey results, dental professionals would like to see more positive messages conveyed in the national press to help improve public perception of NHS...

Over £150k awarded in research grants

The Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) has awarded over £150k to dental surgeons, and a dental care professional, to undertake research.

International award for dental educator

Cathy Coelho, clinical lecturer at Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry (PUPSD), has been awarded the Association for Dental Education in Europe (ADEE) Early Educator Excellence in Dental...

Nestlé retract advert

Food and drink manufacturer Nestlé has taken steps to withdraw its ‘The Smile Factory’ advertising campaign following an appeal from leading oral health organisation the British Society of Dental...

Oral health: the missing piece

Dentists have expressed concern that oral health has not received any coverage in the Welsh Government’s new Taking Wales Forward document – raising questions over the future of the innovative oral...

The cost of compliance

The cost of compliance to the average sole practitioner practice has increased by more than 1,086 per cent in the last decade. 

Speakers announced

The first of Colgate’s innovative online conferences, ‘ColgateTalks: Empower your patients – A European perspective for the 21st century’, will be hosted on October 22, 2016, in which dental...

Are NHS charges masking cuts and driving patients to GPs?

NHS charges are driving patients with dental problems to overstretched GPs, and could soon overtake government funding as the principle source of revenue for NHS dentistry, according to new analysis...

Your profession, your experiences, your opinions

This October, the FGDP(UK) is undertaking an ambitious initiative called the ‘Mass Observation’ project. Subtitled ‘Your profession, Your experiences, Your opinions’, the project aims to capture a...

Digital dentistry made easy

Join Planmeca and special guests on stand E70 and experience how easy it is to embrace digital dentistry within your practice!

Four million patients and counting

Align Technology, a worldwide market leader in clear aligner treatment, has announced recently that 4m patients have now started treatment with Invisalign, the technically advanced clear aligner...

First of its kind faculty for educators

The UK’s first faculty aimed at supporting dental trainers has been launched by Britain’s oldest surgical Royal College. 

Charity’s victory in heart dental health ruling

Pressure from national charity Heart Research UK has helped bring about a change in advice to dentists about giving antibiotics to heart patients undergoing dental treatment.

Children exceed sugar recommendation despite fewer sugary drinks

Children aged four to 10 years are consuming more than double the recommended amount of sugar, although consumption of sugary drinks has fallen compared to six years ago.