Select Dental, has secured a £887,000 funding package from Lloyds Bank to facilitate its largest expansion to date.
Select Dental received the six-figure loan enabling them to expand further into an area with growing demand for dental provisions within the local community.
The Exmouth based dental practice is set to grow its surrounding dental services from three to seven...
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd)’s rcsed.ac.uk Faculty of Dental Surgery, together with sponsors Dentsply Sirona, is delighted to announce the Plymouth heat winner of its award-winning Dental Skills Competition – Zohaib Ahmed from the Peninsula Dental School.
The competition won the Innovation Award at the Scottish Dental Awards in 2019, which recognises those who...
A tiger at Paignton Zoo in Devon has had a root canal – performed by one very brave veterinary dentist… The patient is Paignton Zoo’s 11-year-old male Sumatran tiger Fabi, who is over 2 metres long and weighs over 100 kilograms. A Sumatran tiger has 30 teeth, including four very long canines. Canine teeth are important for biting, tearing and eating meat, for jaw architecture and display. As...
A leading charity has expressed deep concerns over access to oral healthcare in the South West, as new research reveals an estimated 432,000 people living across the region are facing a 40-mile round-trip to be seen by a dentist.
An investigation by the Oral Health Foundation also shows more than one in four (27%) live further than ten miles away from their current dental practice,...
A project carried out by dental students at Plymouth University with the Elder Tree Befriending Service in Plymouth, has made a real difference to its service users.
The Elder Tree Befriending Service aims to prevent isolation and loneliness in people over the age of 50 in Plymouth. As part of their project, the dental students spoke with service users, managers and staff and found a...
The effect of sugar and poor diet on children’s teeth is well-documented, resulting in more children being admitted to hospital for tooth decay than for any other medical condition.
Dental students from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry are working with nurses from the Family Nurse Partnership and the families they support, to develop ways of improving...
A PLYMOUTH dentist is travelling to Nepal with the charity Dentaid in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake which hit the country in April.
Simon Crewe, will visit Kathmandu and the mountainous region of Damilakuwa to assess how Dentaid can provide clinics, teeth screening, oral health advice and education programmes, working alongside the country’s dental professionals.
A new study reveals that thousands of people could be putting their oral health at risk by not brushing their teeth in the evening because they are too tired.
The survey of 10,000 UK adults, commissioned by GSK, as part of its Love Your Mouth campaign (www.loveyourmouth.co.uk) found that 45% of people questioned say they have gone to bed without brushing their teeth, which could...
A Plymouth dentist is urging residents to register for NHS dental treatment after experiencing a surge in patients who had not seen a dentist for 10 years or more.
The appeal was made after it was revealed by the British Dental Health Foundation (BDHF) that people who visit the dentist annually reduce their risk of tooth decay by 60 per cent.
Comparison shows it to be the best performing dental school to be inspected
Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry has passed its General Dental Council (GDC) inspection with flying colours, making it the best performing dental school in this round of inspection.
In total, six dental schools were inspected by the GDC and assessed against 29 performance standards....
