A new dental practice has opened in Saltash as part of an expansion which will see an award-winning community interest company provide dentistry for thousands of local people.
Smile Together is opening new centres and expanding the existing facilities of its Brighter Dental practices throughout 2018 and ploughing profits back into local communities.
A research study at Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry which aims to develop a simple saliva test for gum disease (periodontitis), is the first dental clinical trial to take place in the region and has achieved a significant milestone with the full recruitment of participants to the study.
The recruitment was achieved by the Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise through its...
A group of three dental students from Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry are to embark on an elective project in Peru this summer – and they are to use crowdfunding to help them get there and make a difference to local oral health care.
Fourth-year students Sarah Khalil, Sapna Patel and Amreeta Aytain will visit Arequipa in Peru with overseas elective experts Work the...
Residents from Plymouth voted the dentist’s chair scarier than flying (35%), heights (33%) and ghosts (22%) according to a new study.
Two thirds (66%) of the city’s residents admitted that fear is the main reason they put off visiting the dentist – considerably higher than the 60% average of the UK.
While the potential prospect of pain, needles and having already endured bad...
Residents from Plymouth voted the dentist’s chair scarier than flying (35%), heights (33%) and ghosts (22%) according to a new study released today.
Two thirds (66%) of the city’s residents admitted that fear is the main reason they put off visiting the dentist – considerably higher than the 60% average of the UK.
While the potential prospect of pain, needles and having already...
