Avinash PatelHere’s the key graphic as discussed in my lecture for Colgate. Click the image to view full size.
Ben AtkinsDental training in the UK, and the monitoring of dental treatments is the best in the world. Making sure patients are safe, missing...
Here’s the key graphic as discussed in my lecture for Colgate. Click the image to view full size.
Dental training in the UK, and the monitoring of dental treatments is the best in the world. Making sure patients are safe, missing...
I’m Ben Atkins, and this is my website.
Why would a dentist have his own, personal website? Two reasons, really. Firstly, I think patients should know more about the person they trust to look after their teeth. Secondly, I’ve often been asked by people, in both healthcare and the media for my opinions on dentistry and related subjects.
So whether or not you fall into either of those categories, this site has been designed to help you find out all you want to know.
These are my current thoughts, personal musings and concern things that have interested me or happened to me.
Blogs are funny things. Everyone starts them with the best intentions, but the truth is I don’t have anyone writing this except me – so apologies if it’s some time between postings, I’ll have been busy!
As well as being a dentist in Manchester, I’m greatly involved in wider professional activities, not least as a Trustee of the Oral Health Foundation. This still leaves time for my family, my hobbies and passions – which I’ll share with you.
I hope you find the collection of topics interesting, informative and occasionally amusing …and if you have anything you’d like to hear my views on, just email me at [email protected].
On 15 March, Johnson & Johnson hosted The OH! Panel at the British Dental Association in London and I was honoured to be invited to be a member of the panel. You can watch a video from the event. Chaired [...]
Change is inevitable and this week we got another glimpse of futuristic teeth cleaning. Kickstarter funded organisation Amabrush revealed a teeth cleaning device that takes just 10 seconds to clean our [...]
BBC Breakfast became aware of the work we are doing providing oral healthcare for the homeless. My philosophy is that if groups of patients are hard to reach, we just make more of an effort! In Manchester [...]
Be Food Smart is a new Change4Life campaign launched this week, by Public Health England (PHE). According to PHE, Children consume half the daily recommended sugar intake before the morning school bell [...]
Throughout my career, I’ve been aware of hard to reach patient groups. In particular, I have tried to offer dental services to the homeless around Manchester. This month, BDJ In Practice Magazine [...]
So tomorrow sees the start of the annual Mouth Cancer Action Month. It is organised by the Oral Health Foundation, each November. The purpose is to raise awareness that cancer can occur in the mouth. [...]
So what is the link between oral healthcare and your heart? Is there even one? Yes! Bacteria linking oral healthcare and your heart Because there are harmful bacteria that you can find within a dental [...]
What a brush! I had the great pleasure last week of appearing on Talk Sport to discuss the flossing furore. Little did I know that I would become party to the invention of a new toothbrush! Hosting the [...]
There is a great oral healthcare initiative travelling around first class cricket venues, called Boundaries for Life. First of all, it gives fans, over the age of 35, the chance to undergo a free health [...]
Fluoride. It’s always been a controversial subject. As a dentist, it’s one of the questions I’m asked most. “Do you think it’s right to have it in drinking water?” Well, as it happens I do. [...]
Ben Atkins
