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Published: Wednesday, 18 September 2013 01:14
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This year’s BDTA Dental Showcase gives visitors the chance to attend one of the many on-stand exhibitor lectures. These lectures offer an opportunity to brush up on your skills and learn about the very latest developments in your industry, with the added bonus of verifiable CPD available for you to claim. Showcase is held from 17-19th October, at NEC Birmingham.
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Published: Wednesday, 18 September 2013 01:05
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Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry welcomed its first cohorts of medical and dental students on 16th September. In all, 64 students have enrolled for dentistry. The Bachelor of Dental Surgery is now a five-year A-level entry course. Students will experience training which will see them treating NHS patients from a very stage.
Read more: First students for medicine and dentistry at Plymouth
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Published: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 07:59
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Denplan has sponsored a report entitled ‘Personal Health Budgets – a revolution in personalisation’ to find out what the impact of this would be for the public as well as the medical profession as a whole. Roger Matthews, Denplan’s Chief Dental Officer says: “PHBs put decisions about healthcare management into the hands of the patient, with appropriate oversight and controls. We have supported this report as it questions the basis for addressing health funding generally.”
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Published: Wednesday, 11 September 2013 18:01
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GDPUK Exclusive
Last Monday the BDA sent its staff a consultation letter as the first stage in making widespread redundancies. GDPUK believes this has been brought about as a result of the new three-tier membership system introduced in June. Overwhelmingly members have chosen the cheapest option, causing a substantial reduction in subscription income allegedly amounting to millions of pounds.
Read more: BDA to make staff redundant
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Published: Tuesday, 10 September 2013 08:16
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The managing director of Genix Healthcare, Mustafa Mohammed, is investing £1m in a new facility in Leeds to offer manufacturing and training facilities and job opportunities for 200, including apprentices. With many practices now outsourcing their lab work to overseas laboratories, the British dental technician trade has taken a sharp decline in recent years. The new facility Sparkle Dental Laboratories Ltd is looking to change this.
Read more: Large new laboratory opens in Leeds
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Published: Monday, 09 September 2013 16:38
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GDPUK.com are pleased to announce that they will be exhibiting at the BDTA Showcase from Thursday October 17th to the 19th October 2013. GDPUK will be on stand L06a.
This is the first time that GDPUK have exhibited at a major dental conference. The show will provide a tremendous platform for the 6000 members of the forum to meetup and chat face to face instead of keyboard to keyboard!
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Published: Monday, 09 September 2013 07:56
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The BDTA was delighted with the success of the UK Pavilion at the 101st FDI Annual World Dental Congress Exhibition held in Istanbul, Turkey on 28 to 31August. All the UK exporters based on the BDTA organised UK national pavilion were very satisfied with what they achieved at the event and happy to be part of the distinctive UK Pavilion.
Read more: UK Pavilion pulls in the crowds at FDI-Istanbul
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Published: Friday, 06 September 2013 10:40
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People with poor oral hygiene could be at higher risk of developing Alzheimer's compared with those who have healthy mouths, according to recent research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). The presence of porphyromonas gingivalis in the brains of patients who had dementia when they were alive. The bacterium is usually associated with chronic periodontal disease.
Read more: Link found between Alzheimer's disease and poor dental health
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Published: Friday, 06 September 2013 10:40
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In an interview with Health Service Journal, Sir Malcolm Grant, NHS England chair, has revealed that all of NHS England’s current national directors have ruled themselves out of replacing Sir David Nicholson. He also said he will consider people ‘from outside the UK and with no health service experience as candidates to be the organisation’s chief executive.’
Read more: None of ‘usual suspects’ wants to replace Nicholson
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