The 67th Annual Conference of Local Dental Committees opens in Belfast today, the first time it has been held outside England. Chair, Joe Hendron, told GDPUK: “It promises to be a great Conference. I have tried make it more representative of the whole profession and I look forward to welcoming more female delegates and many younger faces.”
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Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralised materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows that this new approach can create materials with remarkable precision and order that look and behave like dental enamel.
Read more: Scientists develop material that could regenerate dental enamel
“Let’s us all do what it takes for a better dental contract,” were the words of Joe Hendron at the LDC conference dinner last night, when he told delegates why he handed back his prototype contract and his disillusionment with the contract reform process. The after-dinner speaker was Callum Youngson, head of Liverpool Dental School.
Portman was set up in 2009 by Sam Waley-Cohen, the amateur jockey who stunned the horseracing world by winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup seven years ago. He owns a big stake in Portman, alongside Livingbridge, a buyout firm, which became a shareholder in 2014.
Read more: Jacobs Holding joins £300m race for Portman dental chain
The House of Commons Health Select Committee has called on the Government to take ‘effective action’ on childhood obesity to narrow the widening gap between richest and poorest communities. Its chair, Dr Sarah Wollaston MP said: “We know what works & can no longer ignore the lifetime personal costs for these children.”
Read more: Health Committee urges Government to take action over childhood obesity
A Labour MP asked in Parliament how often the Health Secretary and his ministers had met Sara Hurley (pictured). She was told that no meeting had taken place with Jeremy Hunt but she met junior ministers on an ‘as required’ basis.
The BDA Museum has provided objects for the Wellcome Collection’s exhibition this summer ‘Teeth’. It runs from 17 May 2018 – 16 September 2018, in London and ‘tells the tale of our pursuit of a pain-free mouth and the perfect smile’. This muesum is very close to Euston Station.
A man and his parents must pay £1.6m after selling teeth whitener containing 110 times the legal limit of hydrogen peroxide, at the Royal Welsh Show in Builth Wells, Powys, in 2013. They were sentenced in 2016 and the family has now appeared in Caernarfon Crown Court for a proceeds of crime hearing, which recovers the profits of a crime.
A report by Public Health England shows reductions in the sugar content of those products monitored by them of just 2%, which is less than half the Government’s target after one year and a tenth of the 20% per cent reduction it hopes to achieve by 2020. However sugar content in fizzy drinks targeted by the ‘sugar tax’ has fallen by an average of 11%.
Read more: Government makes some progress on sugar reduction but not nearly enough