As the clock counts down to compulsory registration in 12 months time, the General Dental Council is urging all dental technicians and nurses to register

Tesco has announced it will start offering dental insurance cover for both NHS and private patients. The move follows the company’s launch of health insurance

A dentist who implanted temporary fake boar tusks into his assistant’s mouth as a joke has won his case against an insurance firm which had

A piece of floss once used by Paris Hilton, smudged with pink lipstick and found in the trash outside her Hollywood home, has sold for

A further 2,500 patients will be able to access NHS dental treatment in Plymouth over the next year, the local primary care trust (PCT) has

Dr Edwin Scher has been appointed a full visiting professor at Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, in the department of Periodontology and Oral Implantology. Dr Scher,

Dental industry leaders have demanded guarantees that NHS funding will not be squeezed when Primary Care Trusts are given greater control over spending. From April

A dental practice in Scotland has announced it will stop treating approximately 200 children on the NHS. The Bridgend Dental Care Centre in Thurso has

Researchers have concluded that early two-stage orthodontic therapy for prominent front teeth in children does not appear to have any advantages over a single-phase treatment

A dentist whose work left a patient complaining of crooked teeth and a damaged jaw has been cleared of serious professional misconduct following a disciplinary

Over this series of four articles we are considering where blockages to uptake of periodontal care exist. In previous articles I considered the following as

In my lectures, one question arises more than any other: ‘How large do you instrument your cases?’ In response, this column was written to help