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Is it any surprise that NHS dentists are more likely than private ones to just pull teeth out, rather than bother to fix them? I wouldn’t let the NHS anywhere near my teeth because I know that most of the better dentists have jumped ship - in part thanks to Labour’s dental reforms. NHS dentistry doesn’t even have the merit of being free. It’s just cheap, and the service provided shows. I mean, who wants an old-fashioned amalgam filling in full view? I certainly don’t. It was a breath of fresh air switching to a good private dentist. The dentists...

Dr. Mohammad Kasim, the Iraqi Special Operations Forces' chief dentist, examines the teeth of a local Iraqi child during the first "Smile Day" at the ISOF dental clinic located on an Iraqi military compound in Baghdad, June 29. Photo by Sgt. Jeffrey Ledesma, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Arabian Peninsula. BAGHDAD — Dozens of Iraqi children scampered from one station to the next during the first "Smile Day" at the Iraqi Special Operations Forces’ Dental Clinic here, June 28 and 29. A cordial staff of Iraqi dentists and dental hygienists, along with Coalition volunteers, conducted the event that...

Col. Ryan Kuhn, from Clarks, Neb., deputy commanding officer for the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, gives a young boy a soccer ball March 4 in Jisr Diyala. Photo courtesy of Task Force Marne. FOB HAMMER — Col. Ryan Kuhn, deputy commanding officer of the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, met with Hussein Gazi Zaydan, head of dentistry for the Mada’in Qada, March 4 in a hospital in Jisr Diyala. Kuhn, from Clarks, Neb., and Zaydan discussed ways to increase awareness of improved security in the Mada’in Qada, the 3rd HBCT’s area of operation, to attract new dentists and medical...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Chris Collier has been a patient of Dr. Dave Rummel for 30 years. When it comes to teeth, Collier is more concerned about his health than his smile. "The reason I come here is because I know I can trust the dentist I have," Collier said. "I know I can get good workmanship." SLIDESHOW: Images From Report Rummel is one of the few dentists in central Ohio who makes his own crowns, bridges and dentures, but most other dentists rely on outside dental labs, 10 Investigates' Lindsey Seavert reported. The labs can be down the street or...

Patients turn to DIY dentistry as the crisis in NHS care deepensBy JENNY HOPE - More by this author » Last updated at 06:48am on 15th October 2007 Hard to swallow: Few can find an NHS dentist The parlous state of NHS dentistry was exposed yesterday.  Such is the shortage of state-funded dentists that one in 20 patients has resorted to DIY treatment, in some cases pulling out their own teeth.  One in five has gone without treatment because of the cost. And of those who have registered with a private dentist, three-quarters did so only because their surgery stopped...

ROCHDALE, England, May 2 — "I snapped it out myself," said William Kelly, 43, describing his most recent dental procedure, the autoextraction of one of his upper teeth. Now it is a jagged black stump, and the pain gnawing at Mr. Kelly's mouth has transferred itself to a different tooth, mottled and rickety, on the other side of his mouth. "I'm in the middle of pulling that one out, too," he said. It is easy to be mean about British teeth. Mike Myers's mouth is a joke in itself in the "Austin Powers" movies. In a "Simpsons" episode, dentalphobic children...

WASHINGTON - Proving prehistoric man's ingenuity and ability to withstand and inflict excruciating pain, researchers have found that dental drilling dates back 9,000 years. Primitive dentists drilled nearly perfect holes into live but undoubtedly unhappy patients between 5500 B.C. and 7000 B.C., an article in Thursday's journal Nature reports. Researchers carbon-dated at least nine skulls with 11 drill holes found in a Pakistan graveyard.That means dentistry is at least 4,000 years older than first thought — and far older than the useful invention of anesthesia.This was no mere tooth tinkering. The drilled teeth found in the graveyard were hard-to-reach molars....

Two Israeli Arab dentists from the Galilee were arrested on suspicion of helping Hamas plan bombings in Israel, security sources revealed Sunday. The two were identified as Nazmi Hassin, 35, and A'salam Zeidan. They were arrested in September, but news of the arrest was under a gag order until last night. According to security sources, the pair had studied dentistry in Romania in the 1990s. After being recruited into Hamas they even underwent espionage training in Turkey, linked up with a handler and carried out missions for Hamas once they returned home. Hassin, 35, from Nazareth, told interrogators that he...

Thursday March 10 2005 2 47 am x35 Former N.C. dentist could face assault charges in semen case 3/8/2005 12:38 PM By: Associated Press (CHARLOTTE) - The lawyer for a former Mecklenburg County dentist accused of squirting semen into the mouths of female patients expects a grand jury to charge his client as early as next week. Defense lawyer George Laughrun said he expects misdemeanor counts of assault on a female against Dr. John Hall to go to the grand jury on Monday. Mecklenburg Assistant District Attorney David Maloney confirmed to The Charlotte Observer that he plans to submit seven...

British dentists are seeking to stop a teaching seminar in London by a prominent American cosmetic dentist after it emerged that he has a long history of complaints by patients over the quality of his treatments. Dr Larry Rosenthal, who styles himself in his promotional literature as the "dentist to the stars" and has a list of famous clients, including Normandie Keith, the model, and Matt Dillon, the actor, and Donald Trump, is due to give a one-day seminar on "aesthetic dentistry" for British dentists next month. The announcement of the seminar has resulted in a furore among dentists aware...

SACRAMENTO - Arnold Schwarzenegger's chief fundraiser is defending receipt of a $25,000 donation from a dentists' group owned by the same type of single-interest trade association the governor branded off-limits for campaign contributions. No final decision has been made about whether to return the check from the Dentists Insurance Co., fundraiser Marty Wilson said Friday. But the uncertainty underscores the governor's evolving rules for donors, and to critics undercuts his critique of fellow Republicans who have accepted money from Indian tribes with casinos. The governor suggested last weekend that the GOP lawmakers are supporting a tribal-backed ballot initiative, Proposition 70,...

Ex-employees say they saved dentist's syringes Workers testify they were suspicious of Hall's actions with patients KAREN GARLOCH Staff Writer RALEIGH - Two former employees of Cornelius dentist Dr. John Hall became suspicious of his behavior in May 2003 and, over the next few months, collected five syringes from his office that were found to contain his semen, according to testimony Saturday before the N.C. Board of Dental Examiners. Cheryl Lynn MacLeod of Concord said she found it unusual when Hall began asking her to leave a patient's side to retrieve items that he didn't end up using, when she...

The group that collects royalties for songwriters is taking aim at an unusual source: dentists. It's not just dentists, but chiropractors and opticians -- any kind of office space that plays CDs. "This was a money grab, what is the legitimacy of this kind of request of a license for this purpose," asks Dr. Jack Cotrell of the Canadian Dental Association. The idea that music is in the public domain is a longstanding one, but it's also completely wrong, according the a musicians' rep. "Not only is it the right thing to do, but it's also the lawful thing to...

Damage: Tongue and lip piercings can increase the risk of gum disease, infections and tooth loss, researchers say. People who jab gold studs through their lips and pierce their tongues with silver bars aren't usual eager to hear a learned discourse on gum disease. But Dr. John K. Brooks tries anyway: Oral jewelry, he tells them, can cost you a tooth. "The patients I've been successful with are the ones that had pain and infection. They're much more ready to be convinced," the Mount Airy dentist says. Brooks and two colleagues at the University of Maryland Dental School say there...

Dentists in Wales were stunned when 600 people turned up at their NHS surgery hoping for a place on the books. Some of the desperate patients had camped out overnight, others had travelled up to 50 miles and the queue of hundreds snaked down a long hill. The astonishing scenes came about after Brynteg dental surgery in Camarthen announced it would add 300 NHS patients to its list. And although dentists at the practice thought the newspaper advert explaining patients would be on a first come, first served basis would generate interest, they had no idea people were so desperate....

<p>SACRAMENTO -- California is poised to become the first state to recruit Mexican doctors and dentists to work temporarily in medically under-served areas, as the result of a bill that has been signed into law.</p> <p>Assembly Bill 1045 will allow up to 30 doctors and 30 dentists from Mexico to work in the state for up to three years without the ability to renew the license.</p>

Arab Dentists Union denounced the US aggressive threats against Iraq. American threats under different pretexts explain its evil intentions to serve the Zionist enlarged schemes in the Arab area, it said. The Union confirmed in a declaration that in spite of Iraq's implementation of its commitments towards UN relevant resolutions and its call to continue dialogue with UN to find reasonable solutions while, the US evil administration insists on continuing its aggressive policy against Iraq. The Arab Dentists Union called on Arab people to refuse these threats and stand strongly for supporting Iraqi people in confronting the aggression.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texas dentist has been charged with killing her orthodontist husband by repeatedly running over him with her Mercedes Benz, police say. The couple had been arguing in a Houston hotel before the alleged attack on Wednesday night in which David Harris, 44, was struck three times as he tried to get into his own car, they said. Clara Harris, 44, told reporters after she was arrested: "It was an accident." Police said Thursday she told investigators she suspected her husband had been cheating and hired a private investigator who called her to the hotel to confirm...