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Southampton is leading the way in seeking the public’s views on adding flouride to their tap water. And this month, health chiefs step up the consultation by staging the first in a series of TV’s Question Time-style events. The move is in light of high levels of tooth decay and is an attempt at turning…
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Your practice can have its online presence officially rewarded by entering the Dentistry.co.uk Website Awards. Creating a quality and stylish practice website has never been more important – especially in the current economic climate and in today’s dental industry. Recent research reveals that having a website can empowers small businesses to be responsive to the…
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A simple screen of proteins in human saliva can accurately detect a common type of oral cancer, a US study reveals. The finding may lead to a painless new diagnostic test. The test can predict the mouth cancer in 93% of cases, a team at the University of California Los Angeles reported in the journal…
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The BDTA Dental Showcase opened its doors today (Thursday) for the biggest three-day dental event aimed at the whole dental team. The association is hoping to serve up a ‘recipe for success’ at this year’s Dental Showcase – and with an extensive menu from which to choose, here on Dentistry.co.uk we aim to give you…
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Gruesome photos showing how deadly a habit smoking can be will be slapped on every cigarette packet sold in the UK from today. The UK will be the first country in the EU to introduce such graphic picture warnings to cigarette packets – and the move has been welcomed by the British Dental Health Foundation…
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A ‘genuinely personalised’ preventive dental service depends on the time allowed for treatment, the British Dental Association (BDA) has told health minister Ann Keen. The BDA has been highly critical of what they see as the government’s ‘target-driven’ contract brought into force in April 2006. They told the government that a ‘realistic understanding of the…
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The UK’s largest dental exhibition has gone ‘green’. The British Dental Trade Association (BDTA) is conscious of its carbon footprint and has been working hard to introduce environmentally friendly initiatives to the event for 2008. The aisles within the exhibition hall are covered with carpet made from 100% polypropylene recyclable material and after the exhibition…
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State of the art technology makes this new venue a great training location.
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The legal costs incurred, when dentists have to defend themselves against an allegation, are regularly outstripping the compensation received by patients, according to the Dental Defence Union (DDU). Rupert Hoppenbrouwers, head of the DDU, the specialist dental division of the Medical Defence Union, said: ‘While the number of dental claims against our members is static,…
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A dentist who failed to spot that a patient was suffering with mouth cancer has been allowed to continue to practice. The General Dental Council (GDC) decided on the fate of Nalin Dhamecha earlier this month as he faced allegations relating to his failures in 2006 when treating a patient with a lesion on his…
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A new survey reveals that dental surgeries are failing to pick up on symptoms of mouth cancer. The facial surgery charity, Saving Faces, has discovered that dental practices are still not adequately informed of the signs of mouth cancer – and this is delaying patient treatment and resulting in invasive and disfiguring surgery for thousands.…
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The General Dental Council (GDC) has warned that any dental nurses or technicians hoping to get round the new registration laws by altering their job title risk prosecution in court. Transitional arrangements that had been in place for two years – allowing existing dental nurses and technicians to register on the basis of experience –…
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Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases that are characterized by high blood glucose levels resulting from insufficient insulin production, insulin action or both. People with diabetes fall into one of four classifications. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that currently more than 180 million people worldwide have diabetes and, by 2025, that number…
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‘Action speaks louder than words’ is the message as Britain’s leading oral health charity stages a November spotlight on the killer disease. Mouth Cancer Action Week takes place November 16 to 22, as the campaign organisers, the British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF), takes a new stance against the disease. The new Action Week replaces the…
