A dental health charity has welcomed a proposal by a government health advisory board to make smokers cough up for a £10 licence before they

Dr John Girkin, one of the founders of the Centre for Biophotonics at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, has invented a hand-held machine that

A fell walker has been reunited with his set of dentures a year after losing them in the Lake District. David Packer from Manchester had

The General Dental Council (GDC) has successfully prosecuted Community First for Treatment Ltd which had dental practices in Eastfield Road in Peterborough and Main Ridge

A 40,000-YEAR-OLD tooth has provided scientists with the first direct evidence that Neanderthals moved from place to place during their lifetimes. The team used laser

Having spent the past 12 years working in dental hygiene at O’Brien & Molloy Periodontics in Dock Rd, Galway, I know the value of effective

Chemical dependency has many faces and takes many forms, including the use of depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens and alcohol. The most commonly abused substances are caffeine,

US dentists are a romantic bunch – last week, one in five dentists admitted to dating a co-worker or employee at their dental practice in

The British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF) has ripped up its stamp of approval of a trainer cup after a battle over money with the manufacturers.

The immediacy and urgency of a medical emergency can strike terror into us and without proper planning and practise it can be a very stressful

Consider the concept that something that is urgent should not be your number one priority. (Excepting patients in need of an emergency appointment, of course.)

If companies provide workplace flexibility and if employees perceive that flexibility as real, then healthier lifestyle habits are put into action by those employees, according