THE C-WORD. WHAT’S YOUR VIEW? There aren’t many of us whose lives haven’t been touched by cancer in some way. If we’re lucky enough not to have been a victim ourselves, we’re sure to know someone who has. Personally, I had thyroid cancer in my early 20s that would have been spotted by a dentist had I been regularly attending appointments! Words By Joe Earl, Marketing Manager for Dental Sky wi...
The Advantage
How Your Social & Environmental Responsibility Can Give You An Edge
Mark Topley CSR coach helps you build a successful purpose driven business through leadership, culture, team engagement, social responsibility.
Does your business give back or feel like it should be? Is your team participating in an annual event to raise money for charity? Are there murmurs within the orga...
101 Years On, What Have We Learned? Kate Scheer from W&H looks at the importance of hygeine and how far we’ve come since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 which infected 500million people across the globe, and resulted in the death of an estimated 20-50million people. Kate Scheer is marketing communications executive at W&H (UK) Ltd, a professional marketer with an MA in strategic marke...
Managing Dental Anxiety
Dental fear (also known as dental phobia, odontophobia, dentophobia, dentist phobia and dental anxiety) is the fear of dentistry and receiving dental care.
Fear and anxiety, however, toward the dentist and dental treatment are both significant characteristics that contribute to avoidance of dental care. Delaying dental care due to anxiety prevents early diagnosis of den...
Getting children to brush their teeth properly for a 2 whole minutes can often be a struggle, why not make it a breeze? You may have seen it on Dragons' Den, or you may have seen at BDIA Dental Showcase 2018, if you haven't seen it by now, we're talking about the children's interactive toothbrush system, Playbrush! Playbrush is a smart toothbrush system that allows children to play games ...
Over the course of BDIA Showcase this year, a special event took place on the Friday evening on board the Sunborn Yacht Hotel. You may have heard about it, you may have went, either way we're here to give you an insight of what went down (and it wasn't the boat thank God!) at the BrushUp UK BoatBash.
Who are BrushUP UK?
BrushUP UK are a dental Charity based, and operating, in the Sout...
The development of dental adhesives has played a critical role in the revolution of restorative and preventative dentistry, in addition to helping pave the way for minimal invasive dentistry. Through the use of adhesives clinicians are able to make a more conservative cavity design, preserving healthy tissue as mechanical retention is no longer required. Dovetails, grooves and sharp angle u...
Dental burs, the tiny drill pieces for teeth! Dental burs are used in conjunction with the dentist's handpiece for cutting away hard tissue such as tooth and bone. There are a huge range of burs, with different materials, shapes and sizes to suit different situations and procedures. This bewildering range of options can leave you confused and unsure of what bur you require. Shanks Shanks make...
Last year more than 7,000 people were diagnosed with oral cancer in the UK. In just a decade the disease has grown by a third, and of all the advances there have been in battling cancer, it is one of the few cancers that is actually predicted to increase. Of course there are several risk factors that are heavily linked to the disease, such as smoking, but oral cancer can affect anyone. Mout...
Are you still scaring your patients by coming at them with a BIG SYRINGE? If you are using the traditional LA syringe to deliver your anaesthetics then most likely you are! In the mind of the Patient if not in reality. No matter how good you are with your injections, most of your patients (well at least mine) still hate having THAT BIG NEEDLE. Some years ago I attended a course on Local ...
Nowadays, digital workflow dentistry is more or less standard in dental operations. Wether tooth restoration or dental implant systems: CAD/CAM technology is often used by the dental experts to achieve results which are far more precise.
It's not only for health reasons that dental implant systems improve one's life quality, but for aesthetic reasons as well. It just gives a better feeling, when you smile with showing beautiful teeth. The choice of implant is important for sure, but an experience implant expert should give good...
You have awesomely explained everything in this article! From personal experience, I can say that open and honest communication is one of the easiest and best ways for you to finally put your anxieties to rest.
Getting children to brush their teeth properly for a 2 whole minutes can often be a struggle, why not make it a breeze? You may have seen it on Dragons' Den, or you may have seen at BDIA Dental Showcase 2018, if you haven't seen it by now, we're talking about the children's interactive toothbrush system, Playbrush! Playbrush is a smart toothbrush system that allows children to play games ...
Are you still scaring your patients by coming at them with a BIG SYRINGE? If you are using the traditional LA syringe to deliver your anaesthetics then most likely you are! In the mind of the Patient if not in reality. No matter how good you are with your injections, most of your patients (well at least mine) still hate having THAT BIG NEEDLE. Some years ago I attended a course on Local ...
