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7News & OpinionsMay 17-23, 2010United Kingdom Edition Dental Webinars Be Wherever You Want Let the Seminar Come to You... To find out more go to www.dentalwebinars.co.uk or call 020 7400 8989 or email info@smile-on.com Brought to you by 3M ESPE & Smile-on, two forward thinking companies come together for a ground breaking, interactive learning experience. Engage with a leading expert, ask questions, get solutions. Relax in the comfort of your own home and keep up to date through interacting with the world's leading thinkers. 2 Hours Revolutionise your practice Take the stress out of impressioning A dentist has admitted try- ing to strangle his wife on New Year’s Eve. Dr Peter Fleming has admit- ted punching and trying to stran- gle his wife at their home in Wir- ral on New Year’s Eve. Fleming, who runs the Cas- tle Dental Care surgery in Birk- enhead, appeared at Liverpool Crown Court accompanied by two mental health nurses. The 39-year-old had been charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent and grievous bodily harm. Fleming denied the two charges and pleaded guilty to the less serious alternative count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The prosecution accepted the plea, saying it matched the seri- ousness of his wife’s injuries as she had bruises and a cut which needed stitches af- ter the attack. Fleming was initially remanded in Walton prison, but has been trans- ferred to Rainhill’s Scott Clinic. A psychiatric report con- firmed that he is fit to go on trial. The hospital is to carry out a full mental health report on Fleming and the case has been adjourned until 21 May. Judge Bryn Holloway agreed to adjourn sentencing for a full mental health report to be completed. He remanded Fleming to the hospital to await sentencing on May 21. Fleming graduated from King’s College London in 1995. He is a member of the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal Col- lege of Surgeons of England. He is actively involved in postgradu- ate education, holds a teaching certificate and has been involved in the training of a number of newly qualified dentists. DT Dentist admits trying to strangle wife A dental software develop- er has won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for de- velopment of its dental restora- tion software. The award was given to Del- caminrecognitionofthecontinu- ous development of its software for the design and manufacture of dental restorations. Managing director, Clive Mar- tell said: “Having identified the need in the dental sector for effi- cient, easy-to-use CADCAM soft- ware, the response to our Dent- MILL and DentCAD products has been extremely positive and this award will further boost its repu- tation as the market-leading offer- ing in the dental industry.” Delcam’s involvement in the dental area began several years ago when companies in the indus- try started to use the company’s PowerMILL CAM system for the machining of restorations. The software gave immediate benefits, both in the time in which machining data could be gener- ated, and in the speed and quality of the machining operations. However, this early experience showed that it was difficult for dental technicians with no previ- ous experience in CADCAM to use the system. A dedicated piece of software was needed for the dental in- dustry and so Delcam developed DentMILL, a highly-automated knowledge-based program spe- cifically designed to generate tool- paths to machine restorations. Following early success with DentMILL, Delcam began the in- troduction of the partner design program, DentCAD. DT Software developer wins award