The British Dental Health Foundation is encouraging more parents to take their children to the dentist after figures released indicate that the number of children in England visiting a dentist for a check-up has declined slightly over the past five years. (more…)
Shake up pours cold water on fluoride plans
A senior MP has held talks with health ministers amid growing fears that a looming shake-up will make it harder to add fluoride to tap water in more parts of England. Sir Paul Beresford, the chairman of the all-party parliamentary group for dentistry, said he had put a ‘robust’ case that the changes will set back the campaign, despite the promise of huge benefits for children’s teeth. (more…)
NHS leaves patients something to smile about
A new quarterly report looking into NHS dental activity has found that almost one million more people in England have had check-ups compared to the same period five years ago. (more…)
NHS bites back, new dentistry report reveals
Spending on NHS dentistry accounted for the clear majority of the £5.7 billion UK primary care dentistry market value in 2009/10, confirming the message that state spend outgrew private spending during the second half of the 2000s. (more…)
Sparkle shines with cosmetic dentistry honour
Sunita Verma, founder of Sparkle Dental Boutique, to a pinnacle of professional achievement recently when she attained the much-coveted honour of British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (BACD) accreditation. (more…)
Why I’m closing my practice
NEWS FOCUS: Draconian cutbacks in state-sponsored dental schemes have led to a severe drop in the number of patients. Dentist Paul O’Dwyer tells his story (more…)
Patients needlessly losing their teeth as NHS dentists are ‘pulling them out instead of fixing them’
needless: Patients are losing their teeth instead of having them saved because of Labour’s botched NHS dentistry policies.patients are having teeth extracted that could otherwise be saved as a result of the Government’s botched new dental contract, a committee of MPs said tonight.
Amid claims Labour had plunged the Health Service into a ‘dark age of dentistry’, it found evidence that the number of complex treatment such as crowns, bridges and dentures had plummeted by 57 per cent.
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Teens list tooth whitening as a ‘back to school’ essential
ooth whitening was among the ‘back-to-school’ essentials for teenagers, their parents have revealed.
About 45% of parents responding to a poll say that hair highlights, tooth whitening and tattoos were among the items they will buy their offspring as they return to school, according to a new American Express Spending & Saving Tracker survey. (more…)
Dentist hid camera in toilet potpourri to film women changing
Warren Gater, 32, used a miniature video camera to capture footage of the women (more…)
