Dental technicians are suggesting a ‘passport’ for dental restorations imported from abroad to ensure that the US incidents of lead found in foreign crowns do

UK dental technicians are calling for full disclosure regarding the origin of crowns and dentures. It follows reports in the US of lead poisoning of

A US dental technician is blazing a trail as one of the world’s first tooth tattooist. Steve Heward is also a trained tattooist and hand

Almost one-third of children and teenagers show dental erosion, a US study has found. Dental researcher Bennett Amaechi of the University of Texas, San Antonio,

The British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF) is calling on the government to include boys in a planned vaccination programme to guard against the sexually transmitted

Cosmetic dentistry in the UK has seen an explosion in demand in the last 10 years and, if this follows the US model, then we

On 6 March at a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children, Minister for Health, Mary Harney, suggested that the National Treatment Purchase

Last month, as part of the VDP’s day release programme, I attended a two-day seminar on NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming) given by Dr Brid Hendron. Being

After 18 months of research, and with the help of a leading consultant microbiologist, Marks & Spencer has launched Sleep Safe, a new antibacterial nightwear

The announcement that the timescale for compliance with new decontamination guidelines in Scotland is under review has been greeted as a ‘first step in the

A smoker had his tongue removed and replaced with part of his arm after he was diagnosed with cancer. Michael LeFort was given just two

More than 10,000 children with severe dental problems are waiting up to seven years for corrective treatment on the NHS. Orthodontists have warned that in