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• New photoimmunotherapy technique targets periodontitis while preserving good bacteria
  A near-infrared photoimmunotherapy technique first developed for cancer treatment has been adapted to selectively target periodontitis without a detrimental impact on the oral microbiome. The method uses an antibody-dye compound that binds to target cells, activated by near-infrared light. In experiments, it bound to Porphyromonas gingivalis – a key pathogen that triggers periodontitis inflammation –…
• Funding: the ‘F word’ missing from government contract reform plans
  Les Jones speaks to Shiv Pabary about why funding remains the biggest obstacle to the government’s longstanding promise of NHS dental contract reform. Although this podcast was recorded at Dentistry Show Birmingham in May, a change of Prime Minister has so far yielded no indications as to whether this new regime will honour the promises…
• Is your polar bear personality responsible for your career in dentistry?
  This week in dentistry, research found that the ‘polar bear’ personality type is most common in dentistry, more than 500,000 tubes of toothpaste were donated to families and Cornwall’s first Dentistry Summit highlighted ways to improve access to NHS dentistry across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Dentists and tigers and bears, oh my! Dentistry…
• Are new dental school places a realistic answer to the workforce crisis?
  Nigel Jones offers his views on the recent announcement of 50 new dental school places to be divided between the Universities of East Anglia and Portsmouth and whether they will solve the workforce issue in UK dentistry. Despite having more than 40,000 on the register, we do not have enough dentists in the UK. This…
• Ageism in dentistry: are we treating elderly patients or our assumptions about them?
  ‘Given their age’ is an excuse we’ve all heard many times – Sharif Islam debunks some of the ageism that patients face when seeking dental treatment. Almost every time I’m in the gym, members inform me that ‘someone my age’ shouldn’t be able to, or even try to, move from an L-sit to a handstand…