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].
Dangerous teeth whitening techniques have made the headlines yet again this week with the news that Amazon has withdrawn a DIY teeth whitening kit which has been found to contain sodium perborate. This [...]
The Daily Mail featured an article this week on so-called ‘trendy’ methods of cleaning your teeth and I was very pleased to contribute. I’ve been asked about these other options many [...]
Delighted to read about oral healthcare in the global press this week. And well done the Oral Health Foundation for developing the story during Mouth Cancer Awareness Month. Because, when it comes to cancer, [...]
There has never been a wider range of dental products available to buy. Anne Hodgekiss, writing for the Daily Mail, decided to investigate the market. As a practicing dentist and Trustee of the Oral Health [...]
What is the reason crisps are better than raisins for your teeth? Well, dried fruit releases all the bad sugars associated with fruit when converted from its natural form. Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health [...]
Andrea Downey at The Sun newspaper recently published a story about high profile tooth loss. Actress Demi Moore went on late night US television and showed a less than flattering photo of her gaps. Tooth [...]
A busy week for dentists in the media, and great to see Andrea Downey at The Sun pick up on another aspect of being frightened of the dentist. In her article, she highlights this disturbing fact. About [...]
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 [...]
Dentists media and the recent survey on children’s teeth Dentists media coverage is not always what we’d like. So it’s hard to over emphasise the importance of last week’s announcement [...]
In October 2014, I was asked to contribute to a detailed feature article by Lisa Salmon, in the Northern Echo entitled “The Whole Tooth”. The feature concentrated on Children’s Oral Healthcare [...]
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