We still need to tackle the use of children’s TV, film and cartoon characters for junk food marketing The Children’s Food Campaign has released its response to Chapter 2 of the Government’s Childhood Obesity Plan. The response outlines support for the Government’s… Read more »
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SDCEP Update
SDCEP Implementation Advice on Restricting the Use of Dental Amalgam in Specific Patient Groups – Publication The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) has recently published Implementation Advice on Restricting the Use of Dental Amalgam in Specific Patient Groups. This has been… Read more »
Enhanced CPD for DCP’s
All dental care professionals (DCPs) will be now required to move to Enhanced CPD on 1 August 2018 to maintain their General Dental Council (GDC) registration. For those professionals who reach the end of their five-year CPD cycle this year, the new… Read more »
BASCD Essay Competition
British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) Keith Woods Essay Competition 2018 Write an essay of up to 2000 words on the following topic: The British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry (BASCD) invites entries to the Keith Woods… Read more »
BSG Winter Meeting 2018
The future’s bright for older people and oral care in the UK ? Location: Rooms on Regents Park, 27 Sussex Place, London NW1 4RG Date: 06/12/2018 Time: 9.15 – 16.15 Provisional Programme: The long term view from a Commissioner Oral Medicine A… Read more »
Resources on public-private interactions in diet-related NCDs
In January 2018 WHO Executive Board will discuss a new WHO tool to support countries to engage with the corporate sector on nutrition programmes. A new casebook contributes to the global discussion on conflicts of interest. It documents 12 experiences of different… Read more »
170 operations a day to remove rotten teeth in children
BASCD joins calls to reduce sugar after new figures show thousands of children having multiple teeth taken out under general anaesthetic. The British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry has joined the call for action to tackle sugar in response to… Read more »
Change4Life Campaign
The British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry welcomes the new Change4Life campaign which is promoting healthier snacks. The key message is to: “Look for 100 calorie snacks, 2 a day max” to cut children’s sugar intake1 Why is this important?… Read more »