Category Archives: Dentistry

Here’s an article from my most recent Ezine, about Mouth Cancer Awareness Month. Please read it in conjunction with my blogpost on the cause of Oral Cancers that I wrote in August last year. …….On my first full afternoon, tiring of shopping in The Mall and dreading spending any more time than I needed inContinue reading “Mouth Cancer Action Month”

I was in on the “ground floor” of Gloucestershire Independent Dentists when it formed in the early 1990s following the NHS fee cut and (yet another) new NHS contract. I still attend their meetings when I am able and am happy to present advance notice of a couple of good ones upcoming in the nextContinue reading “Two Great Meetings In Gloucestershire”

But it could be applied to any surgical specialism. Early in my hospital career I quickly tired of patients being referred to the wisdom teeth in bed 22 or the fracture on ward so and so. One of my early coaches, David Price, used to pose the question “What will you do for the benefitContinue reading “Orthopaedics v Anaesthesia”

During the later stages of my father’s life he suffered with xerostomia, or dry mouth, due to his anti-diuretic medication. It meant that he found it extremely difficult to wear his dentures; always a proud man, this added a psychological problem to his physical ones. It was a sign of the poor care that heContinue reading “Dry Mouth- Potentially Good News?”

Orthodontists – stop space closure and get on with separating those centrals. New York fashion week: “It’s all about gappy teeth” A report from the Guardian claims gap teeth are “the must-have orthodontic trait du jour” at New York’s fashion week as designers are calling for models with a diastema (a gap between two teeth).Continue reading “New York fashion week: “It’s all about gappy teeth””