UK To Lead WHO Battle On Sugar
The United Kingdom is to head a new Europe-wide initiative to reduce sugar and calorie intake in food.
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Research is in progress to develop a ‘smart’ dental implant that resists bacterial growth and generates its own electricity to power a light that can rejuvenate tissues.
Cabinet Reshuffle – Will It Delay Contract Reform?
It was nearly all-change at the Department of Health following the Prime Minister’s recent Cabinet reshuffle.
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New Safe Dentistry Initiative Launched
Yesterday saw the launch of a new campaign aimed at championing the benefits of safe dentistry.
BDA Calls For Clarity From Health Secretary
The British Dental Association has written to the Health Secretary Sajid Javid following the Prime Minister’s statement in the House of Commons that “We want the NHS to be a better place for the dental profession."
Male Dental Students Overestimate Their Skills
An interesting new study has found that male dental students overestimate their performance more significantly than females.
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Public benefits from a GDC Lay Chairperson?
I have seen the soft campaigning in the form of opinion pieces and social media posts by dentists active in various positions in the British Dental Association (BDA) in the weeks and months before the General Dental Council (GDC) announced their new Chair to replace Dr William Moyes who is du...
Bring Back The RDO, Buzz Aldrin
Since I retired a couple of years-or-so ago, I’ve had many dentistry-related dreams/nightmares. Many of these dreams find me suddenly planted back in a surgery somewhere, working on difficult patients with tricky clinical needs.
What Model Works?
Once upon a time, as all the stories, good, and bad, start, a dental surgeon would have a chair of some sort in his (almost always his) south facing sitting room and ply his trade. George Bernard Shaw in the 1897 play “You never can tell” describes such a set up in the home of Dr Valentine, a...
Come On GDC - Be A Hero!
It seems odd at my age, writing the words ‘Dental Hero,’ but Simon was one of them, even though he was only a handful of years older than me. Simon was my first ever dental boss, and he ran two practices, one in the Cotswolds and a newly acquired practice in a large Worcestershire town.
How I Started To Learn To Love Humans Again
These days, if I get any phone call on my mobile from a number I don’t recognise, I reflexly activate the speakerphone and start the voice recorder up on my watch.I used to get quite tense and angry when I received these calls. At my own practice a few years ago, we fell victim to a scam operated by...
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Which retrograde root filling material?
This Cochrane review update of different materials used for retrograde root filling in children and adults requiring retrograde filling included 8 RCTs. However the studies are all at high risk of bias so provide insufficient evidence for the benefits of any one material.
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Autumn Break
The Dental Elves are taking a short break and will be back on the 18th October.
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Periodontitis: Locally delivered anti-microbials as an adjunct to surgical periodontal treatment
This review of the effectiveness of locally delivered adjunctive antibiotic treatment during periodontal surgery on clinical outcomes included 9 RCTs. While the findings suggested that adjunctive locally delivered antibiotics could improve some clinical sutcomes they evidence was limited and of very low certainty.
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