Guest Editorial

An amalgam-free world – are we and our patients ready?

The bsspd debate highlighted that many dentists attending the conference admitted to not feeling engaged with those making the decisions on the potential phase-down and potential future ban of dental...

News of board members

It is with pleasure that I welcome Professor Tara Renton to the Editorial Board of Dental Update. Tara will already be known to readers by way of her epic series on Pain and other publications for the...

View from the north end: a model for future dental schools?


‘The inspection panel was impressed by this modern, modular programme which is delivered in the main across a number of Dental Education Centres (DECs) and Extended Training Practices (ETPs). The...

Regulators and regulations: who will guard the guards? (or ‘quis custodiet ipsos custodes’ as old juvenal used to say)

Good question and it probably happened because of the ‘law of unintended consequences’ (Merton, 1936).4.