By Sonia Joshi Unfortunately, the BDA estimates that over 20million people in the U.K. have missed dental appointments due to the Pandemic. The results of the recent study highlight the importance of encouraging patients to maintain their oral health during the pandemic, emphasising the importance of good periodontal health to help assist in the battle against adverse COVID 19 outcomes. This two-part article aims to summarise the results of the recent study and look at ways w

By Sonia Joshi The devastating impact COVID 19 has, at the time of writing this article, resulted in over four million confirmed cases of coronavirus and more than 116,000 COVID 19 related deaths in the UK according to government figures. The development, approval and deployment of a range vaccines against SARS CoV 2 has been a game changer in our fight against COVID 19 by reducing people’s chances of getting sick, needing hospitalisation and dying from the disease. In combin

By Linda Greenwall At the beginning of the new year 2021- we consider all that has happened in the past year during the Covid pandemic. A year ago, we would never have dreamed of what was in stall for us during this last year and now that we have effectively entered a third lock down in the UK- how has this impacted on dentistry? We have had to rapidly change and adapt to so many new protocols, standard operating procedures and adapt to new ways of working and risk management