At lunchtime on Tuesday 26th June, Bristol Dental School students and staff held a tea party in the bright sunshine of the Chapter House courtyard. Everyone enjoyed homemade scones with jam and clotted cream, homemade cakes, doughnuts, tea and coffee and listened to a beautiful performance from the School’s student-staff choir, The Choral Surgeons. Joker the trainee … Read more
Between the 9th and 16th of June, Bristol welcomed 12 Hanover exchange students for the 44th year of the Bristol-Hanover Dental Exchange Programme. We had a jam-packed week, fortunately with some sunshine, which we did mention is not always typical of Bristol. We all had a great time getting to know our German exchange students … Read more
The 2018 University Open Days took place this past Friday 15th and Saturday 16th June. As always there was great representation from staff and students of the Dental School, and prospective students were given all the information they required ahead of applying to study dentistry. The new “A day in the life of a Bristol dental … Read more
On Friday 15th June, Bristol Dental School held an Eid al Fitr celebration in the courtyard of Chapter House. Eid al-Fitr is a festival celebrated worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Staff and students shared baklava, stuffed dates, chocolate cake, tea, coffee and doughnuts in the warm sunshine. … Read more
Further to the recent post, the video “A day in the life of a Bristol dental student” is now complete! A huge thank you to everybody involved in the project, from the film crew at Beeston Media, to the stars of the show (in order of appearance!) – Alannah, Bianca, Claudia, Sina, Vishan, Shaikho, Malaaika, … Read more
You are all invited to celebrate Eid al-Fitr in the Bristol Dental Hospital this year. 😊 This will take place on Friday 15th of June. Eid al-Fitr is a festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting. Cakes, coffee, tea and baklava will all be provided and everyone is very … Read more
Current undergraduate students Vishal Davda and Neel Sethi have had a revision article on the topic of Dental Trauma published in the BDJ student magazine. The article is titled “A Summary of Trauma in the Young Permanent Dentition”. Do have a read as it may prove a useful revision resource for other students currently studying the unit … Read more
Work has been ongoing recently on a new promotional video for the Dental School entitled “A day in the life of a Bristol dental student”. This video will be used for University Open Days and MMI days, as well as be available on our YouTube channel for anybody interested in coming to student dentistry at … Read more
Elizabeth Blyth, a year 2 student on the BDS programme, has been awarded a prestigious INSPIRE vacation studentship. The national INSPIRE scheme is designed to engage medical, dental and veterinary undergraduate students with research. Elizabeth will spend a one-month placement in Bristol Dental School’s Oral Microbiology group, working under the supervision of Dr Angela Nobbs. … Read more
We are delighted to bring to your attention the recent success of IEU based dental researchers in the upcoming IADR conference. Collectively we have had 2 first author oral presentations and 3 first author poster presentations accepted at this prestigious international conference (details below). Special mention should go to Serena Dodhia who has had her … Read more