Sami Stagnell
What makes a beautiful smile? A smile isn’t just a mouth and teeth thing: it’s everything around it and when you consider the word beautiful, well that’s such a subjective thing and there is never just one right answer that…
Judith Deeprose
What makes a beautiful smile? The person behind it – and healthy teeth and gums too of course! Favourite music to drive to? Anything I can sing along to Apologies if you are in the car with Me! Best Place…
Farhan Janjua is a Dentist at Mcinerney’s
We asked him a few questions about himself What makes a beautiful smile? A smile is a social asset. It enhances the aesthetic features of a person’s face; helps create an impression, Inspire people and build lasting relationships. Smiling reduces…
Bird gives Giraffe a free dental check up in Tanzania
Click on the link below to see pictures of a giraffe waiting for a red-billed oxpecker to finish working as its dentist, in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania. Read the full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3304976/Say-awwww-Cute-bird-gives-giraffe-free-dental-check-pecks-away-bits-teeth.html
Today in history
Today, August 24th 79AD was the day Mount Vesuvius exploded burying Pompeii and Herculaneum. Toothache in the Roman era was no problem! The Romans had already discuvered drills and clamps for the removal of teeth. Opium was used as a…
No More Fillings?
A new device pioneered at King’s Dental Institute, which enables decayed teeth to repair themselves, could soon be used globally. The pain-free remineralisation process is an alternative treatment to injections, drills& fillings, reducing – and potentially removing – the need…
Dental History – Waterloo Teeth
Exactly 200 years ago any dentist with a few pounds to spare could buy fresh teeth by the barrel load – very handy for anyone who needed to make dentures. There was a sudden glut on the market as a…
Beware the ‘Healthy’ fruit snacks
Many supposedly “healthy” fruit snacks aimed at children contain more sugar than sweets, says a campaign group. Action on Sugar looked at 94 products on UK sale, such as coated dried fruit, and found a third contained three or four…
Polar Molars
It appears that bears, just like humans, are prone to dental problems. Walker, one of the male polar bears at Scotland’s Highlands Wildlife Park, had to visit the dentist in March to find out the cause of a possible…
Children’s Oral Health Report published
The Children’s Dental Health Survey 2013 has recently been published. Since the last survey was carried out in 2003, there has been a reduction in the percentage of 12-15 year olds with obvious decay in their adult teeth. Good news?…
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