News

Achieve whole mouth protection

Dental professionals were recently invited to an online educational webinar to hear about how Colgate Total delivers additional clinical benefits, over using an ordinary fluoride toothpaste.

45 seconds to save a life

Throughout November, a leading oral health charity in the UK is aiming to save lives by ensuring visual mouth cancer checks are carried out properly during every check up.

Help colleagues this Christmas

As the holiday season approaches, the BDA Benevolent Fund is asking dental professionals to spare a thought for colleagues who are suffering. Here, the charity, along with past patron, Professor Nairn...

#BlueLipSelfie campaign set to support Mouth Cancer Action Month 2016

As the Oral Health Foundation’s Mouth Cancer Action Month gets underway in November, Denplan’s #BlueLipSelfie campaign is set to involve hundreds of dental practices around the country.

Improving oral health in Europe’s poorest country

International dental charity Dentaid is offering retired dentists, dental nurses, therapists and hygienists the chance to join an oral health education team in Moldova.

Dental regulator prosecutes Hertfordshire man for unlawfully practising dentistry

The General Dental Council (GDC) has successfully prosecuted a Hertfordshire man for carrying out dentistry while not on the register of dental professionals.

Dentists welcome clarity as Home Office rules out X-rays for asylum seekers

The British Dental Association (BDA) has welcomed news that the Home Office has followed its advice and ruled out unethical and ineffective X-rays to establish the age of child asylum seekers.

Welcome news

The Faculty of General Dental Practice UK (FGDP(UK)) has welcomed a proposed 13.5 per cent reduction in the annual fees dental surgeries pay to the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

VAT free

Align Technology continues to work to make it easy for patients to say yes to Invisalign treatment. 

Mandatory reporting of child abuse not the answer says dental defence union

Registered dental professionals already have strict professional guidance that requires them to act on concerns about child abuse.

NHS Dental Prototypes: Positive but ‘teething issues’

The National Association of Specialist Dental Accountants and Lawyers met at their recent biannual meeting and heard an update from Martin Woodrow, director of member services at the BDA, in regard to...

George Warman Publications announces purchase of BDIA Dental Showcase

George Warman Publications has announced that it has purchased the rights to the UK’s biggest dental exhibition, BDIA Dental Showcase. 

Acquisition announcement

Directa Dental Group, a leading global manufacturer of dental consumables and materials, has announced the acquisition of Parkell, Inc., a USA based manufacturer of dental materials and dental...

Brexit update

“Anxiety and uncertainty continues to surround the UK labour and employment market following the announcement of a Great Repeal Bill by Theresa May, in which the Government will enshrine all EU law on...

New data on smart repair of tooth decay

The first data on dental fillings that can actively repair tooth decay is presented by Professor Robert Hill. Professor Hill is chair of physical sciences at the Institute of Dentistry at Queen Mary...