Happy smiles
The specialist Orthodontic Centre in Doncaster has welcomed its 20,000th new patient since it first opened in 1999. more>
Challenges to dentists
The challenges facing dentists in a rapidly changing environment are not simply confined to National Health Service reforms, delegates to the British Dental Conference and Exhibition in Manchester were told. more>
Fresh appeal
The official website for the UK's premier dental exhibition, British Dental Trade Association Dental Showcase, is now live and sporting a new, fresher look for 2008, in keeping with the Recipe for success theme being adopted to promote the event. more>
Run for Dentaid
Oral health charity Dentaid is offering its supporters the chance to run in the world’s largest half marathon, The Great North Run, and raise funds for the charity’s vital work The Great North Run will be taking place on Sunday, October 5, 2008. The Great North Run will be taking place on Sunday, October 5, 2008. The run is 13.1 miles, beginning in Newcastle and finishing in South Shields, and is a great incentive to get fit or take on a new challenge. more>
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Public protection focus
Retired on the register
No celebration for budget extension
To the manor born
Technicians' toothache
Fifty dental technicians, their representatives, members of the professional dental bodies and Parliamentarians were brought together last month to thrash out the way to secure the dental technology profession in the UK, which is facing numerous
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CDO opens teaching unit
Chief Dental Officer Barry Cockcroft has opened Leeds’ first dedicated dental outreach teaching unit, inside Beeston Hill Community Health Centre. more>
Bristol Dental School expands
The University of Bristol Dental Hospital and School is celebrating a £15m expansion which was opened by CDO Barry Cockcroft. The state-of-the-art facility - the most advanced of its kind in the country - more>
Online forum for research
A new online forum designed to identify the priorities for research into primary care dentistry was launched at the 2008 British Dental Conference and Exhibition. more>
Salford prize
Cemal Ucer and Gillian Crofts, programme leaders of the PG diploma/masters degree in dental implantology at the University of Salford have announced that Simon Wright, a part-time postgraduate student from the Wirral, was the winner of the Medcare Prize donated by General Medica. more>
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Dentaid boost
Oral health charity Dentaid has been given £17,500 from the Cordent Trust. The Trust, which has recently disbanded, was a small charitable grant-making organisation set up in 1970 to make grants to individuals and small charitable projects both in the UK and overseas.
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On reflection
Dental Protection has chosen reflection as the theme for this year’s Annual Review (pictured). More than 65,000 copies will be distributed in 70 countries and territories worldwide.
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Window closing
Dental nurses and dental technicians are being warned that their window of opportunity is closing! They need to register with the General Dental Council by July 30, 2008.
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