A healthy mouth helps to maintain balanced metabolic profiles
Common oral infections, and caries, are associated with inflammatory metabolic profiles related to an increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases, a…
Dentistry
Dentistry: Access problems will cost lives
The British Dental Association has stressed the Government must act to meaningfully restore access to NHS dentistry, as oral cancer…
Dentistry: Access crisis piling pressure across NHS
The British Dental Association has said figures from the Labour Party on the nearly 70,000 patients who sought dental care…
Keep NHS afloat out of your own pockets
The British Dental Association has said government has effectively told the profession it cannot afford NHS dentistry, as it prepares…
Dentists: 4am queues for NHS care risk becoming the new normal
The British Dental Association has urged government to step up as Leigh, Greater Manchester, joined the growing list of communities…
8.4m Brits have knocked out a tooth
More than 8.4 million or 16% of Brits have knocked out a tooth at some point due to injury, fall…
Workforce plan attempting to handcuff dentists to sinking ship
The British Dental Association has expressed deep concern that the new NHS Long Term Workforce Plan is setting out aspirations…
NHS Workforce Plan missing core elements
Responding to latest reports on the details expected in the NHS Workforce Plan, the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (APSCo)…
BSPD launches ‘Rights from the Start’ initiative
Launching on 9 June 2023, BSPD’s new ‘Rights from the Start’ initiative will shine a spotlight on children and young…
Charity backs landmark oral health prevention report
Charity backs landmark oral health prevention report: A leading national charity is backing the release of a landmark new report…