Taking place between 18 to 24 November, World Antibiotic Awareness Week is set to highlight the issue of antibiotic resistance. Are you ready to join the rebellion? World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) will take place between 18 and 24 November ... [Continue Reading]
Zirconia: strong and beautiful
As zirconia becomes a more affordable option, Neil Photay muses on its viability for restorations in NHS dentistry In dentistry, the list of available restorative materials continues to grow exponentially. Inspired by the quest for better ... [Continue Reading]
Not just posture: causes of musculoskeletal pain
Khalil Hussein discusses musculoskeletal pain in dentistry by assessing the potential causes in daily work life Perfect posture does not exist, and even if it did its perceived importance would have little significance compared to what was once ... [Continue Reading]
Dentistry magazine Business Publication of the Year 2019
Dentistry magazine has won the Business Publication of the Year award at the PPA Independent Publisher Awards. Announced on Friday, Dentistry magazine beat six other publications to the coveted prize. The PPA Independent Publisher ... [Continue Reading]
Eimear O’Connell discusses her digital dentistry journey
Her journey with Digital Dentistry Dr. Eimear O'Connell, Principal Dentist of Bite Dentistry, sitting president of ADI, and keynote speaker at our Dental Innovation Symposium in 2020, tells us about her journey with digital dentistry at the BDIA ... [Continue Reading]
What is the soft palate?
The soft palate is the muscular part of the roof of the mouth. This article provides a diagram of the soft palate and discusses its anatomy and functions, as well as the conditions that affect it. SOURCE: Dentistry News From Medical News Today - ... [Continue Reading]
GDC announces new appointments on its executive team
The General Dental Council (GDC) is announcing two new members to join its executive team. Sarah Keyes will become the new executive director, organisational development. And finally, Stefan Czerniawski will become the new executive director, ... [Continue Reading]
Charity launches mouth cancer campaign
Campaigners and supporters joined The Oral Health Foundation at the Houses of Parliament yesterday as they launched this year’s Mouth Cancer Action Month The room was filled with 130 campaigners and supporters. The attendees heard from a range of ... [Continue Reading]
Technology focus for Carestream Dental’s Summit
Carestream Dental is today (1st November) hosting its one-day Summit event, presenting its latest product and software innovations to dentists. The day’s first speaker was Jason Bradbury, well-known technology expert and presenter of The Gadget Show ... [Continue Reading]
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FMC is giving you the chance to win an Amazon Echo Dot, simply by filling in this short one-minute survey. We are committed to developing the best and most informative magazines and websites that we can possibly produce. In order to achieve this, ... [Continue Reading]
Standards in Dentistry freely available online
The Faculty of General Dental Practitioners (FGDP(UK)) has launched Standards in Dentistry, now freely available online. Standards in Dentistry is a comprehensive collection of standards and guidelines for primary care dentistry. Furthermore it sets ... [Continue Reading]
Therapists on the march
Michael Watson implores dental teams to come together and support therapists in working to their full scope of practice Six years ago, the General Dental Council issued its Scope of Practice document. It defined what each member of the dental team ... [Continue Reading]
Scottish dental school wins NHS education award
The University of Glasgow Dental School has won the NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde Excellence in Education Award Following an exceptional outcome to the inspection of the BDS programme at Glasgow by the GDC in April 2019, the course has ... [Continue Reading]