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• Simplify your filling therapy with Ivoclar
  Discover how Ivoclar’s coordinated direct restorative workflow simplifies every step of your chairside routine – from isolation to one-step – delivering efficient, high-performance filling therapy designed to save time and elevate patient care. Every day in practice, you’re juggling patient expectations, clinical precision, time pressures, and an ever-growing number of material choices. While direct restorative…
• Dental therapists (not) prescribing: competence vs hierarchy
  Alicja Zajac examines whether regulations surrounding dental therapist prescribing rights are proportionate, evidence-based and consistent with the principles of equality. There is a quiet absurdity at the heart of UK dental regulation. A dental therapist can drill into a child’s tooth under local anaesthetic yet cannot prescribe a reversible neurotoxin to treat bruxism or facial…
• Dental nurse erased after assaulting another nurse
  A dental nurse has been erased from the General Dental Council (GDC) register following convictions for assaulting another dental nurse and a second woman, and failures to disclose criminal matters to the regulator. The nurse was convicted by court martial in July 2024 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and two offences of assault by…
• Dentistry Show London 2026: make time for what’s next
  With Dentistry Show London returning to Excel London on 9-10 October 2026, now is the time to secure your free place at one of the capital’s key dates for the dental profession. Finding time away from a busy practice isn’t always easy. But with dentistry evolving at pace, taking time to look beyond the day-to-day…
• Four ways to unlock clinical efficiency in the modern dental practice
  Digital dentistry has moved well past the early-adopter phase. Intraoral scanning, live and AI-assisted scan review and real-time collaboration with the lab are no longer novelties; they’re becoming the baseline for how efficient practices operate. But owning a scanner isn’t the same as using digital workflows to their full advantage. The practices seeing the biggest…