Free to read: a rough outline of what I spent my time doing during the COVID pandemic!

Looking forward to Peter Bateman’s Masterclass, 30th Nov 3021, 6:30pm. ‘Reconnecting clinical services with DPH’. Peter a past president of #BASCD (2013-14) is the chair of #BSDH. Register using the QR code. Details available at bascd.org/conferences-an… EADPH Community Dental Health

Thanks SKaddour. Hopefully an enjoyable coffee break. It is open access for anyone who wants to read about #dentistry and #Covid_19. Lovely place mats btw.

Absolutely brilliant Masterclass from British Assn. for the Study of Community Dentistry with Peter Bateman this evening Fascinating talk on where we are now, how we got here and where we might/should/could be heading… Thank you Maria Morgan and British Assn. for the Study of Community Dentistry

The World Health Organization is inviting you to the first webinar of the Commercial Determinants of Health Webinar Series events.streamgo.live/commercial-det…

Unable to go to #mydadwroteaporno tonight in Manchester 5/3/22. Message if you’d like tickets!

The government, of course, thinks that healthy eating is a matter of individual responsibility. If so, why have obesity rates gone up? And why increased inequality in childhood obesity? A food strategy needs to deal with inequalities in healthy eating. theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

My thoughts on sustainable health equity in the BMJ.

"These dentists are not worth a penny less than they were 15 years ago," says Eddie Crouch “Our members will down drills until the government comes back to the table with a serious offer.” Hospital dentists will join @BMA_JuniorDocs in strike action. 👇 standard.co.uk/business/busin…

.Department of Health and Social Care has issued a release saying ‘the BDA’ would recommend a pay offer to members. For the avoidance of doubt this BDA is not the British Dental Association. Like The BMA colleagues working under the Junior Contract we’ve received no offer & been party to no negotiations

I’ll be on annual leave for a few of the next strike dates, but I support all my #juniordoctor and #juniordentist colleagues in their continued IA. I would implore all to consider donating to protect our NHS. bmastrikefund.raisely.com

Many of us love medicine because it is a visual discipline. A short 🧵with snapshots on tongue changes #MedTwitter 1/

Public health dentistry training, with a clinical element (either GDP or hospital based) would be awesome. Dual training would be even better. Great work Faculty of Public Health.

FLAT OUT TRUTH A doctored image claiming to show a fly on NASA's Mars rover Perseverance recently went viral online. The photo shows a fly sitting on top of the rover's mast camera. However, NASA has confirmed that this image is a hoax. The fly was added to the original photo using digital

Ah yes. Victoria Atkins. Who is married to the MD of British Sugar. Potential impacts on #sugartax and #nhsdentistry?

Doing this again for anyone who wants to chat about dentistry as a career

Problematic, and a symptom of current central funding for NHS dental provision. This isn’t an NHS charge, and yet is being described as one to a service user. A new, prevention focused contract is required, alongside transparency by this particular dental practice.