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Driving out inequalities in regulation

Dental Protection has welcomed recommendations by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) for regulators, including the General Dental Council (GDC), to help tackle inequalities in professional...

Get the patient to the church on time!

Ceri Owen-Roberts shows how he uses digital technologies to support planning and delivery of implant treatment in a young female patient.

Kick-start your dental implant career

General dental practitioners who are looking for an implant dentistry course offering the support of a local mentor, convenient online learning and hands-on practicals, can register for the Dental...

Innovative new whitening system launched

Professional whitening has never been so popular. The recent pandemic changed ways of meeting and communicating, and we now look at ourselves on screen, multiple times a day meaning 69 per cent of UK...

Smoking action plan to be dropped?

Government insiders have suggested that the health secretary, Thérése Coffey, plans to break promises to tackle smoking.

Renewed partnership to provide free dental care to for Southampton cancer patients

Macmillan Cancer Support has renewed its partnership with dental charity Dentaid to help fund a mobile unit at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS). 

Wellbeing Toolkit launched

Mahrukh Khwaja, dentist and positive psychologist, together with Unilever’s oral care brand Zendium, have launched a new, activity-based Wellbeing Toolkit to help address the mental health challenges...

Excellence awards nominees

{my}dentist has revealed the shortlist for its Excellence Awards 2022 which are set to be presented on October 14, 2022.

Championing member interests: Board of management appointments

The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has announced the appointment of Simon Watkin and Tom Norfolk as chairman and vice-chairman respectively to the DDU’s board of management. Simon will take over from Paul...

Setting young patients up for life

Kate Scheer considers the challenges of treating children.

Youngest person to have a wisdom tooth extracted

Nine-year-old, Ryan Scarpelli, has become the youngest person to have a wisdom tooth extracted!

Certainty during uncertain times

Richard Lishman considers the impact of the changing economic environment.

Implants could be used as hearing aids

A new study published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America suggests implants could be a discreet alternative to traditional hearing aids.

Calls for the government to make regulatory reform top priority

The Dental Defence Union (DDU) is calling on the newly appointed health and social care secretary, Thérèse Coffey, to make regulatory reform and support for struggling dental professionals a top...

‘Superorganisms’ leaping across teeth causing tooth caries

A team of researchers have discovered bacteria and fungi which lead to dental caries can team up to create ‘superorganisms’.