RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has signed a long-term collaborative agreement with the University of Plymouth’s Peninsula Dental School. The partnership will support RCSI in delivering a new undergraduate Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree programme. This will be the first community-based undergraduate dentistry degree programme in Ireland. Peninsula Dental School’s award-winning … Continued
More and more dentists are leaving Ireland to pursue careers – but not to the UK. As of 2013 there were 183 fewer dentists practising in Ireland, despite a rise in the number of graduates, according to recent figures from Eurostat. Chief executive officer at the Irish Dental Association, Fintan Hourihan, said: ‘[Graduates] are no … Continued
Findings show that faecal coliforms are present on more than half of toothbrushes in communal bathrooms at a university. Researchers found that ‘there was an 80% chance that the faecal coliforms seen on the toothbrushes came from another person using the same bathroom’ after testing the toothbrushes in communal bathrooms. The findings show that toothbrushes … Continued
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