Within the past three weeks every Year 4 BDS student has visited a care home in the city to provide oral health guidance to carers. This new initiative fits within the Social Accountability helical theme of the BDS21 curriculum. Students were trained prior to, and accompanied during, the visits by volunteers from Bridge2Aid, a dental … Read more
Mike Gregory delivered a hands-on impression taking workshop at the British Undergraduate Dental Research Conference on Saturday 25th February in Manchester. Mike was joined by current BDS final year students Adam Kingsley and Kyriakos Keklikoglou and Jagdeep Saimbi who is a previous graduate from Bristol who supported him in delivering the workshop to a host … Read more
Congratulations to Numra Maryam (Year 5 BDS) on her winning entry for the photograph competition associated with the recent evening walk around the Bristol Light Festival installations. Numra wins a £20 gift token for the photograph below of the Beam installation at Castle Bridge. Congratulations Numra, great picture!
On 12th October we held our annual Dental Scrubs Ceremony. The purpose of the Dental Scrubs ceremony is to mark the first significant milestone in their professional journey, receiving their dental scrubs and reflecting on their new role and responsibilities as dental professionals. Bristol Dental School is the only Dental school in the UK that … Read more
The Bristol PLUS Award is the University of Bristol’s employability award which rewards students for extracurricular activities completed at any point during their degree and provides a structure to reflect on the skills developed as a result of these activities. Achievers receive formal recognition with a certificate, on their degree transcript and at graduation. Employers support the Award … Read more
The University Library has invested in a trio of new products to improve access to eJournals both on and off campus: Browzine, LibKey Nomad and LibKey.io. BrowZine provides a new way to view the journals available from the Library, while the Libkey products improve access to the full-text of articles. We recommend you download the Libkey Nomad … Read more
Congratulations to dental alumni Nidhi Parmar and Gabby Thompson who have recently had a research paper accepted for publication in the prestigious Journal of Orthodontics. The title of their article is “Microbial colonisation associated with conventional and self-ligating brackets: a systematic review”. This systematic review originated from their Year 4 Evidence Summary project and identified … Read more
Taha Alibhai has been announced this week as the national winner of the ABAOMS (Association of British Academic Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons) undergraduate essay prize. This year’s title was “Prevention is better than cure – should all partially erupted impacted lower third molars be removed?” It is a brilliant achievement as his entry was up … Read more
Huge congratulations to current Year 5 BDS student, Qui-Yi Lim, who was awarded the Junior Colgate Prize at this year’s BSODR conference, held last week in Birmingham. This award recognises excellence in research performed by undergraduate students as part of their degree programme. The competition was fierce, but Qui impressed the judging panel with her … Read more
My name is Keira and I am a final year dental student and a keen sportswoman. The aim of this piece is to share my university sporting experience and hopefully encourage students at dental school to take up a sport or join a society whilst studying. I will highlight the importance of doing so, through … Read more