Here’s the key graphic as discussed in my lecture for Colgate. Click the image to view full size.
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].
More than 80 people have been prosecuted for illegal teeth whitening in the last three years. I was glad to be asked for comments by BBC Radio Sussex to highlight the dental profession’s grave concerns [...]
A recent article in The Telegraph saying we are brushing our teeth all wrong, made fascinating reading. I was delighted to go on Love Sport Radio to talk about some of the points raised in more detail. [...]
Discussions about dentistry on the radio reach wide and varied audiences. And as part of the work I do as a Trustee of the Oral Health Foundation, I get invited to contribute. So, this week I am on the [...]
Sharp teeth was the topic of a poser sent into Simon Mayo’s Radio 2 programme. In the regular feature Homework Sucks, a 10 year old listener asked ‘When are your teeth at their sharpest?’ [...]
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 [...]
I was invited onto Radio 5’s Breakfast Show, yesterday. We had a discussion about the dangers of a dentist using fake dental equipment. The first thing to say, is that any fake equipment is a danger [...]
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 [...]
Media dentist talks to BBC Radio Manchester about Children’s Tooth Decay BBC Radio Manchester asked me to do a short interview last week. I was responding to a report that 1000 children in the Greater [...]