A very warm welcome to our new undergraduates at Bristol Dental School! This week saw 76 new students arrive with us and hopefully receive a very useful “Welcome Week”. There were a wide variety of introductory talks beginning on Tuesday with a welcome from the Head of School Professor Peter Robinson and an introduction from … Read more
You may have spotted the University of Bristol Dental Hospital on BBC One’s Shop Well for Less (first aired Wednesday 19th September and available via the iPlayer for 28 days – check out the 35 minute mark!). Ms Sarah Bain, Director of DCP School and Dental Hygiene Students took part in a plaque challenge, testing electronic … Read more
Earlier this month 3M visited Bristol and delivered an update on impression materials to year 3 dental students in the Clinical Skills Laboratory. Dr Daud organised a hands-on session to train students on the use of Pentamix machines to deliver impression materials and achieve satisfactory impressions. Dr John Rafelt and Mr Stephen Gerrard from 3M kindly supported the session … Read more
The University Medical Library are currently piloting the Reading Well for Mental Health scheme, working in partnership with Student Advisers who will promote it to University health services and students. About the scheme Reading Well helps you to understand and manage your health and wellbeing using helpful reading. The books are all endorsed by health experts, as well as people with living with the conditions covered … Read more
Congratulations to the students who have recently been awarded with the Diploma in Dental Hygiene from the University of Bristol. They successfully completed the intensive 2 year training and now registered with the General Dental Council. Prizes awarded at their Diplomat Ceremony: Carly Wichall – Oral Health Promotion Prize awarded by TePe. Awarded to the … Read more
On the 21st November we are hosting a Masterclass to celebrate the 10th year of the MSc Dental Implantology. Masterclass: Immediate full-arch implants: the team approach Guest speakers: Susan Tanner, Andrew Dawood, John Wibberley MSc alumni speakers: Simon Ernst, Vincenzo Bruno, Paul Davies Tickets: £125 This course will be of interest to dentists, technicians, hygienists and … Read more
Further to our earlier post Success for Bristol dental researchers at upcoming IADR conference, intercalating BDS student Serena Dodhia presented at the conference a couple of weeks ago in London. Here’s what Serena had to say… “I enjoyed presenting a poster at the International Association of Dental Research (IADR) conference from the 25-28th July held at … Read more
The University is delighted to offer entrance bursaries of £750 to two new home (UK) undergraduate students in the school of Dentistry for their first year of study. The basics of the bursary are: The entrance bursary is valued at £750. Two students will be selected for the bursary Home (UK) students who will be first … Read more
Following a graduation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial building on the morning of 17th July prizes were awarded to the following BDS students and graduates at a ceremony in the Biomedical Sciences building. A huge congratulations to all. THE DENTAL GOLD MEDAL (awarded by the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust) Miss … Read more
This week we hosted a work experience day for the Dental stream of the Pathways to the Professions Programme. Nine year 12 students are building on their experience at a couple of taster sessions earlier this year with hands-on activities in CSL, including; taking impressions, suturing and practicing indirect vision, followed by presentations from our … Read more