I am fascinated by the way people think about teeth. It's characterised by a TV advert from a leading manufacturer of toothpaste. The 'gym bunny' fronting the ad knows how to keep her bum, hips and heart-healthy, but asks what...
Today is the centenary of the cessation of hostilities at the end of the First World War. A war in which the British and Empire Army was so large that it employed 850 dentists, just on the Western Front (in...
SNOMED CT is, to simplify things, a system for coding medical conditions and treatments. It's created by an international agency and is being rapidly adopted by governments across the 'Western World' to help standardise medical terminology....
I have a very clear memory of 'the School Dentist' when I was at primary school. Each year a dentist and a dental nurse would set-up shop in some part of the school and inspect the teeth of every child...