Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

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You will receive mentoring to build the confidence you need to complete larger restorative cases. 4 x 3 day modules @£325 +vat per day Starts: April 2011 GROUP SIZES LIMITED TO 12 thePREPcourse - hands on restorative training 8 day course £325+vat per day Starts: MARCH 2011 GROUP SIZES LIMITED TO 12 Direct and Indirect Composites Posts - direct cast and new all ceramic Bonded Amalgam and Nayyar Cores Full Coverage Crowns Minimal Intervention and Bonding Veneer Preparation/Prototypes/Gingival Control/Impressions and Fit Conventional and Maryland Bridge Preparation Lab Communication and critique Hands-on UPDATE FOR DENTAL THERAPISTS Course A two day hands on Restorative update for dental therapists, the format of the day will start with an interactive seminar to get everyone up to speed with all the new developments, both with materials and techniques in the field of cosmetic and restorative dentistry. £195+vat per day March 21st & MARCH 22nd 2011 Predictable Dental Bonding Anterior Aesthetics and Composites Minimal intervention and caries management Whitening Update Minimal Intervention and Bonding Dental photography - integrating clinical photography into daily practice Early bird Booking Discounts - advanced training & mentoring F orget Kanye West and his diamond teeth, Japanese schoolgirls could be the driving force behind a new era of fashionable teeth accessories. Instead of diamonds taking the limelight, these “fronts” contain bright multi-coloured glowing LED lights that simply fit in your mouth – minus the tooth loss. Japanese schoolgirls have pounced on the product - which is being advertised as a ‘party in your mouth’ - and demand has gone through the roof. This latest craze that is spreading across Japan works in two ways: firstly, the lights can be a variety of different colours, which can be changed wire- lessly on a PC, and secondly they can be activated when you smile! You can even get a wireless hand-held computer by which to control the contraption, making your teeth change colour - from a lurid green to demonic-looking red - or even blink. Of course they work best in the dark! The new fashion accessories, which are quickly becoming a sort after accessory, were origi- nally created as an experiment by two Japanese designers; how- ever they are now being used in a commercial advertising a win- ter sale at a Japanese clothing store, Laforet Harajuku. Reports have said that Mo- toi Ishibashi, one of the design- ers involved in the project, ex- plained in a blog post that the original idea for the LED smiles came after he saw a video last year of LED Throwies, which are little lights that can be affixed to a magnet and thrown on metal surfaces. They are like lighted graffiti. Mr. Ishibashi and Daito Manabe, the other designer and technologist on the project, are reportedly offering workshops in Japan showing people how to build their own LED smiles. DT The LED smile The LED smile is taking Japan by storm D ental Property Hold- ings (DPH), a new niche commercial property investment firm, has completed £1.2m in property acquisitions from one of the UK’s leading den- tal operators. The five sites, pur- chased on a sale and leaseback basis, are located in Chelms- ford, Wigan, Leicester, Mil- nthorpe (Cumbria) and Llanelli, and represent the initial assets purchased by DPH in an ambi- tious programme of investment which aims to acquire £10m of new properties in 2011. This follows recent changes in UK legislation allowing dental prac- tices to be incorporated, leading to corporate dental groups un- dertaking aggressive acquisition strategies resulting in rapid con- solidation, increased revenues and higher margins. Co-founder of DPH, Patrick Ryan, explains: “Dental prac- tices now provide attractive investment opportunities for large, private equity-backed dental groups. However, their aim is to operate and profit from dental businesses, not from property and property manage- ment and so our offering allows for simultaneous acquisition of the operating business by the dental group and the pur- chase of the property asset by DPH. This saves dental groups between five per cent and 10 per cent of acquisition and on- ward disposal costs as well as significant management time. DPH source, appraise and man- age the properties which, due to our portfolio approach, benefit fromcost and manage- ment efficiencies.” DT Dental property firm acquires first assets T he BDTA is pleased to announce the dona- tion of nearly £1,000 to Bridge2Aid following the sub- mission of completed mem- bership questionnaires and technology surveys sent out last year. In order to assess how well the Association is meeting the needs of its members, ques- tionnaires were sent out to each member company, and the BDTA offered to donate £5 to the Bridge2Aid charity for every questionnaire returned. 47 member surveys were filled in and submitted which repre- sented an exceptionally high response rate. The BDTA also conducted research amongst dentists to investigate their attitudes to- wards new technologies and training courses. Again, an excellent response rate was received and £2.50 was do- nated to Bridge2Aid for each of the 285 surveys completed and returned. Executive Director of the BDTA, Tony Reed, stated: “It is important for us to understand the needs of our members in order to continue to serve them effectively and introduce new benefits. It is vital for our members to understand how members of the dental team respond to new technolo- gies and the mix of train- ing preferred. We were ex- tremely pleased with the response achieved from the questionnaires and to be able to donate funds to Bridge2Aid made the research worthwhile on a number of levels. Thank you to all those who participated.” Mark Topley, Chief Execu- tive at Bridge2Aid, commented: “The BDTA has been a great support to us over the past 6 years and helped us to achieve so much – restoring tens of thousands of smiles and chang- ing many lives in Tanzania. This donation will go a long way to helping us relieve the pain of thousands more people in the coming year and extend our work to new areas desper- ate for basic dental services and training. Our thanks go to the BDTA for thinking of us in this way, and to all the members of the dental industry for complet- ing their questionnaires”. For further information on the BDTA visit www.bdta.org. uk DT BDTA Donates to Bridge2Aid February 7-13, 20114 News United Kingdom Edition