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Upping your game

Rebecca Morris considers how to achieve your goals despite the pandemic’s effect on dental nurse education

You've got this

Newly qualified dental nurse and mum of one, Gemma Forsythe, works for ...

Staying connected

During this pandemic, it’s been especially challenging for the older and ...

A pioneer in dental nursing

Louise Belfield is a trustee for the National Examining Board for Dental ...

Imagine that – revision in a flash!

Trainee dental nurse Francesca Walking on how her home-crafted learning tools ...

Visual learning and creative study

Rebecca Joseph reveals the secrets of her study success…

A dental nurse by any other name

Strive to be the best assistant you can be… Helen Needham talks about titles ...

Thinking of studying dental hygiene?

We join Monika Krumova on her journey from dental nurse to becoming a dental ...

Pregnant during lockdown

Hulya Colak works in an NHS practice in Thanet in Kent. Here, she talks to ...

Alcohol and dentistry

Dental hygienist and therapist Sarah Thomson offers a sobering account of her ...

We were planning a comeback...

‘We were planning a comeback from the moment lockdown happened’

Dental nurse Danielle Schroven talks about the expansion of duties in a ...

‘An opportunity that didn’t happen by Chance’

‘An opportunity ...

Corporal Sherwin Chance talks about his role as a soldier, dental nurse and a dental nurse instructor at the Defence Medical Academy

The reward of my maternity leave

The reward of my maternity

Dental nurse Leanne Birkett reveals how she blossomed as an oral health educator while off work to have her baby

Dental nurse power

Rebecca Power works as a dental nurse at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital in the maxillofacial and orthodontic department. Here, she reveals how her ‘inner geek’ is driving her passion

Natalie Bates worked in the travel industry for six years. Now, she is sharing her journey from trainee to qualified dental nurse on Instagram. Here, she reveals why she changed her career destination

Embracing change

Claire Frisby suggests this ‘new normal’ is something to which we will all need to adapt

Chasing those dreams

Laura Maddison became a dental nurse at 16 and has just graduated as a dentist. Here, she shares her amazing and inspiring career journey

‘I want to be a dental therapist’

‘I want...

Scarlett Bowker on how dental nursing has opened the door to a new career

What a difference a few years makes

What a difference a few years

Vicki Griffiths started the decade as a dental nurse and ended it as a dental hygienist and therapist but with ‘significantly more wrinkles ‘. Here, she shares her journey