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Antibiotics before dental treatment could save lives, research shows
Up to 78 lives per year could be saved if dentists could administer antibiotics to vulnerable patients with heart conditions…
Dentistry
WTF? What is the future?
Professor Iain Chapple shares invaluable insights into how dental professionals may be able to face the future, confident that they…
Dentistry
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Weight loss jabs to be sold in UK chemists
Weekly weight loss jabs are to be sold at high street pharmacies in the UK, sparking concern from health experts.…
Dentistry
Sleep dentistry set for growth after change in NICE guidance
Aditi Desai explains how dentists’ role in management of patients with sleep disordered breathing is about to enter a period…
Dentistry
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Smoking and behaviour change
Anna Middleton gives her perspective as an ex-smoker what it’s like to give up smoking and how dental teams can…
Oral health
Dental news you’ve missed this week
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… Time to end…
Dentistry
Mouth cancer diagnosis – be safe not sorry
In support of Mouth Cancer Action Month, Sue N’Jie highlights the dentolegal risks of missing a mouth cancer diagnosis. Mouth…
Dentistry
Lincolnshire hospitals going smoke free in 2020
A new ban for Lincolnshire hospitals will stop staff, patients and visitors from smoking on hospital grounds in 2020. From 6 January…
Dentistry
Uniting to find a solution
Representatives from the dental and care sectors met at the British Dental Association to discuss the findings of the Care Quality…
Dentistry
Disney introduces smoking ban in its parks
Disney is banning smoking at Walt Disney World, Disney Land and water parks from today. Vaping and smoking can now only take…
Oral health
FGDP(UK) endorses advice on antibiotic use
The FGDP(UK) has endorsed new advice for dentists on the use of antibiotics against infective endocarditis (IE). New advice from the…
Dentistry
Dentists demand better dental services in care homes
Dentists around the UK are calling on the Government to properly fund dental services for residents in care homes. The…
Oral health
Close encounters of the fourth kind
The Department of Health and Social Care has missed an opportunity by repeating exactly the same model in the next…
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Dentists could play ‘key role’ in detecting eating disorders
Dentists could be playing a ‘key role’ in detecting patients with eating disorders, new research has suggested. Researchers from…
Oral health
New guidelines hope to improve oral health in care homes
Care home residents’ oral health needs are the focus of a new NICE quality standards guidelines. The guidelines outline the…
Oral health
Online antibiotic prescriptions ‘indefensible’
Online antibiotic prescriptions are indefensible without seeing dental patients first, the British Dental Association (BDA) has said. The statement was made after…
Dentistry
Calls for local authorities to improve oral health services
Local authorities should improve oral health services and signposting to available dental services, the Oral Health Foundation has said. The…
Oral health
Care home residents should be helped to brush their teeth twice a day, says NICE
A draft quality standard to improve oral health in care homes and hospitals has been published today (6 January 2017)…
Oral health
A dental review of 2016
Michael Watson reviews what has happened throughout 2016 in dentistry. For my final blog of 2016, I return to the…
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