On Wednesday morning the group visited Xental dental laboratories near Celle. There we met one of the directors Axel Quint. We saw computer aided design of a zirconia crown and computer aided manufacture of crowns and bridges. There is a video on the CADSPEED website showing one of the machines that we saw in action. … Read more
Today the group attended a special lecture. Interestingly, this involved an in-patient attending at the front of the lecture theatre and sitting in the dental chair. It was interesting to see a medical patient who also had dental problems. A third year student would take the patient history and then fifth year student would do … Read more
Monday morning welcome from Prof Eisenburger followed by talks from Dr Tavassol on Maxillofacial Surgery and Miss Kerth on Orthognathic Surgery. Our students have the opportunity to go into operating theatres later in the week.
After a lengthy brunch from 9:30 until 1:00 we went on a guided city tour, stopping by the lake for a very refreshing drink. We then went to visit the Town Hall (Pictured). There is a great view of Hannover from the top of the dome as you can see from the photos in the gallery … Read more
An innovative teaching idea has developed a deeper understanding of the surface anatomy and 3D arrangement of the face and the floor of the mouth for 1st year dental students. During two unique and interactive anatomy revision sessions, anatomy was turned inside out seeing students carefully painting the muscles and neurovascular structures of the face … Read more
Recently our first year dental students spent the day learning how to design and manufacture CAD-CAM dental restorations using the latest scanning and milling software. Thanks to Sirona, the students had a chance to learn the theory behind this technology as well as practice the technical aspects of this advanced system. CAD-CAM is quickly infiltrating … Read more
Dentistry at Bristol has been ranked 4th in the Complete University Guide 2018, a rise of 4 places from last year. Overall the University of Bristol has been ranked 17th in the Complete University Guide – a rise of seven places this year, and climbing more than any other University in the top 30. The … Read more
Library staff would encourage all staff and students in the Dental School to download Unpaywall a new free web browser extension which links to journal articles, even if the Library doesn’t subscribe to the journal, if the author has put up an open access version of the article on the Web. This makes finding Open … Read more
We are delighted to announce that Aneel Jabbar won the poster presentation competition at the Association of Dental Implantology Conference in London, 2-4 March 2017. Aneel graduated with his BDS in 2010 before returning to the Dental School on the MSc in Implantology course, which he completed in 2016. The title of Aneel’s poster was “The … Read more
Further to our post back in December we are delighted to announce that Dr Rachel Cowie has been nominated by students to represent Oral and Dental Sciences at this year’s Best of Bristol Lectures. She will give a lecture open to all students and the general public on Tuesday 28th March at 7pm. Please see … Read more