Regenerative Endodontics, a new treatment for saving the teeth of adolescents, is likely to enter the dental mainstream, predicts Julian Webber of Harley Street Centre for Endodontics. He has welcomed the new procedure which potentially allows endodontists to save immature posterior and anterior teeth without the need for conventional root canal treatment.

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The managing director of Genix Healthcare, Mustafa Mohammed, is investing £1m in a new facility in Leeds to offer manufacturing and training facilities and job opportunities for 200, including apprentices. With many practices now outsourcing their lab work to overseas laboratories, the British dental technician trade has taken a sharp decline in recent years. The new facility Sparkle Dental Laboratories Ltd  is looking to change this.

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Professor Steve Field will join CQC from NHS England and will lead the inspection and regulation of primary care services across the public, private and independent sectors. Professor Field said: “I am thrilled at being appointed the first Chief Inspector of General Practice in England. I see this as a wonderful opportunity to highlight what’s good in general practice and dentistry, and to shine a light on what isn’t.”

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People with poor oral hygiene could be at higher risk of developing Alzheimer's compared with those who have healthy mouths, according to recent research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). The presence of porphyromonas gingivalis in the brains of patients who had dementia when they were alive. The bacterium is usually associated with chronic periodontal disease.

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A general dental practitioner from South Yorkshire has been awarded more than £164,000 to investigate whether dental filling materials that contain plastics act as environmental pollutants. Dr Steven Mulligan, an associate dentist at practices in Rotherham and Sheffield and Honorary Clinical fellow at Sheffield University, will lead a two-year research project that is expected to commence in January 2014.

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