Featured articles

Pulp Stones- friend or foe?

Annum Sabir is a newly qualified dentist, working as a DCT trainee in MaxFax.

read more

The Yellow Brick Road from Finals to Foundation Training

Satnam graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2015 with honours and a clinical distinction in dentistry. She then went on to successfully complete her foundation training in the West Midlands.

read more

Compiling a portfolio...a guide to a painless experience

Emily Hooper graduated from Bristol Dental School in 2013. She completed DF1 in Bath and has since completed Dental Core Trainee positions in Bristol and Newcastle. She currently works as a DCT 3 in Paediatric Dentistry.

read more

DFT...there is another way

Saleem Hasanally is in his third year post-qualification after choosing to do his vocational training over two years at Porth Dental Teaching Unit in Wales. If you’re thinking DFT is the only way, read Saleem’s experience of training another way. 

read more

A Snapshot of Clinical Photography

Sumeet Champaneri graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2015 and is currently a DCT in Restorative Dentistry at the Royal London Hospital.

read more

To DCT or not to DCT? That is the question.

Hannah qualified from Peninsula Dental School in 2015 and went on to complete her DF1 on the Oxford Scheme.

Today she is a DCT1 in Paediatrics and Oral Surgery at Birmingham Dental Hospital, but she found the choice of applying for DCT a difficult one to make.

read more

Communication

Dr. Louise Hanrahan is a 2014 dental graduate from James Cook University and the winner of DPL’s inaugural The Young Dentist Award for Professional Excellence.

Entrants were encouraged to submit an article about risk management and Dr. Hanrahan chose the topic of effective communication. This is her winning entry:

read more

A Young Dentist's Review of YDC– Sydney 2015

Sam Osborn is a 2013 graduate. He practices in the Army, in private practice, and is a Young Dentist Committee Member.

read more

The Fourth Annual Young Dentist Conference 2015 - SYDNEY

For a young dentist in the big bad world, days can be daunting when met with common challenges of our workplace; cone cuts at the apex, that overzealous patient who insists on showing you their entire family album when you're running half an hour late, the odd stubborn matrix band, forgetting to choose a shade and the most dreaded of them all… a disgruntled patient (cue dramatic booming tones).

read more

Let’s Talk About Mouth Cancer

Ewan MacKessack-Leitch graduated in 2011 from Dundee Dental School. Ewan is currently a CT2 in Paediatrics at Dundee Dental Hospital.

read more