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Empowering the profession

Josie Jackson talks to Lucie Flood about how supporting patients’ general health can lead to empowerment in practice

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Dental nurse figures remained steady in 2019-2021

Despite reports highlighting a drop in NHS dentists, what do GDC figures show when it comes to dental nurses?

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Chief Sustainability Officer’s Clinical Fellow Scheme

Thanks to the pioneering efforts of NHS staff and partners, we’re already on track to deliver a greener NHS. But together we can achieve even more.

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TV and radio’s Rylan Clark plans on framing his famous veneers

The TV and radio personality recently revealed on social media that he would be saying goodbye to the veneers he had had for the last eight years.

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Students offer free dentistry

The University of Portsmouth Dental Academy has been offering free dental care to homeless people.

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Dentist mother makes claim on Tik Tok: Never kiss your child on the mouth

Joyce Kahng, a mother and dentist in California known as @joycethedentist, recently shared her thoughts regarding kissing your children on the mouth on the social media app Tik Tok.

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Which Christmas chocolates contain the most sugar?

As Christmas is a time for sweets and treats, Expressdentist.com were intrigued to find out which chocolate boxes could be the worst for your teeth based on sugar content.

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ASH at 50: nearly eight million lives in the UK lost due to tobacco since 1971

The modelling was by Professor Sir Richard Peto, world renowned epidemiologist and statistician, who worked with Sir Richard Doll on the health risks of smoking.

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MP responds to dental delays in Hampshire: it “simply cannot go on”

The broadcaster shared that Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage said “Local MPs will be pushing for some rapid suggestions out of this because we simply cannot go on as we are.

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Can baby teeth be used to identify children at risk of mental health disorders later in life?

Senior author Erin C. Dunn, ScD, MPH, is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist and an investigator in MGH’s Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit. She studies the effects of childhood...

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NHS to prescribe e-cigarettes

This would make England the first country in the world to prescribe medicinally licensed e-cigarettes.