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12 Aug 2025 • Blog, Dental Health

Restoring Smiles, Rebuilding Lives: How Diamond Smiles Is Transforming Dental Care for Survivors of Domestic Abuse

An Edinburgh-based dental charity is quietly changing lives—one smile at a time. The Diamond Smiles Foundation, founded by implant dentist and owner of Southside Dental, Leanne Branton, offers transformative dental care to women survivors of…

13 Jun 2025 • Blog, Dental Health

Beyond the Surgery: How UK Dental Practices Can Change Lives Around the World

As more stories of patients struggling to get appointments with an NHS dental practice appear it’s easy to believe that we’re poorly off as a nation. Now, imagine a world where more than 70 million…

22 Jul 2024 • Blog, Dental Health

Bridge2Aid – making a difference to oral health in Tanzania with Shaenna Loughnane

In 2024 dental charity, Bridge2Aid, is celebrating 20 years since their first Dental Volunteer Programme in Tanzania. Chief Executive, Shaenna Loughnane, explains how its strategy for delivering aid has changed recently. One of the key…

3 Nov 2020 • Blog, Dental Health, Uncategorized

How to inspire positive perceptions of oral hygiene education

Amber Ojak shares her game-changing EME (Educate, Motivate, Encourage) approach to bridge the gap between your patients’ home routine and what’s taught to them in practice… Prevention is a growing priority for the dental profession…

24 Jun 2020 • Blog, Dental Health, Covid-19

The COVID-19 chronicles: an associate’s view

At last, we’re back. There appears no sweeping changes to the NHS in the short -term. Long-term, many cross fingers it’s not back to UDAs. It’s galling it took a pandemic for decision makers to…

20 Mar 2020 • Blog, Dental Health

Eight top tips to keep your mouth healthy

Friday 20th March is World Oral Health Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about good oral hygiene and its impact on oral and general health. To help you look after your mouth and keep…

4 Jan 2020 • Blog, Dental Health

The effect of smoking on your dental health

We’re just a few days into 2020, so there’s a chance that any New Year’s resolutions you made are still going strong.

4 Nov 2019 • Dental Health

Raising awareness of mouth cancer

November is Mouth Cancer Action Month, over the last year, 8,302 people in the UK have been diagnosed with mouth cancer. This is a figure that continues to grow year on year, with mouth cancer…

13 Sep 2019 • Dental Health

Things to avoid when brushing your teeth

Considering how often we brush our teeth (twice a day hopefully), it’s surprising how many things we may be doing wrong, or not doing at all. Perhaps over time, we pick up bad habits which…

13 Aug 2019 • Dental Health

How often should you visit the hygienist?

The amount of time between appointments for visiting the hygienist is specific to each individual patient. Your hygienist will assess the needs of each patient, their risk of disease and if further treatment or monitoring…

15 Jul 2019 • Dental Health

Toothbrushing techniques and tips to reverse gingivitis

Do you spit blood when cleaning your teeth? The most common reason for this is inflammation of the gum; which could be a sign of gum disease. Gum disease can be categorised in two different…

17 Jun 2019 • Dental Health

How to deal with bleeding gums and chronic inflammation

If eyes are said to be the window to our soul, then the mouth can be a window to our health. Teeth are the closest we get to seeing the state of our bones, so…

27 May 2019 • Dental Health

Maintaining a healthy smile

With evidence that oral health is linked to general health, it has never been more important to look after your mouth, a healthy smile is also one of the first things people notice about you. This month is National Smile Month…

19 Apr 2019 • Dental Health

What to look for when choosing the right dental practice for your child

Choosing a dental practice for yourself can be a difficult task, but this is even more so when it comes to selecting a practice for your child. It’s important to pick the right dentist and…

23 Mar 2019 • Dental Health

What, why, wear??? The facts on Acid Erosion you need to know

Summer is just around the corner and lots of us will be eating new healthy diets. We’re now far more educated and aware of the damage sugar can cause our teeth and we are much…

23 Feb 2019 • Dental Health

Keep your teeth healthy

Here are some simple and easy to implement ideas to help you achieve better dental health in 2019. Let us know which ones you have done!

19 Feb 2019 • Dental Health

Sugar-free for February

We’ve all heard of ‘Stoptober’, ‘Movember’ and ‘Veganuary’ but as far as I’m aware, February has never had its own catchy strapline….until now that is, but which one to choose? Cancer Research UK are calling…

18 Jan 2019 • Dental Health

Who are the dental therapists?

We spoke to Julie Deverick, a dental hygienist and the President of the British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy (BSDHT), about the role of dental therapists, what treatments they can offer and what you…