The new e-learning platform ILKUM (an acronym for “Interaktiver Lernzielkatalog der Universitätsmedizin Mainz” or interactive catalogue of learning objectives of Mainz University Medical Center) is a sign of things to come: Students of dentistry in 2010 now only need internet access to be able to download case studies with film and image material showing disease [...]

A UK university, in partnership with the NHS, is launching a two-year project to prevent tooth decay in young children and babies. The project – by the University of Salford – is in partnership with Salford City Council with funding from the National Institute for Health Research. Children in the North West have one of [...]

More than 1.8 million young people aged 15 to 24 die each year, mostly due to preventable causes. About 16 million girls aged 15 to 19 give birth every year. Young people, 15 to 24 years old, accounted for 40% of all new HIV infections among adults in 2008. In any given year, about 20% [...]

University of Michigan School of Dentistry has signed an agreement with Interleukin Genetics Inc. to conduct what may be the largest clinical study to date using genetic testing to assess the risk for gum disease. William Giannobile, professor at U-M dentistry and director of the Michigan Center for Oral Health Research at the School of [...]

The Standing Committee on Research and Education (SCORE) stresses the need for the students’ involvement within the dental scientific community by offering opportunities for the ones who desire to make a difference within the society. Our predecessors managed to build successful projects in cooperation with World Health Organization, FDI World Dental Federation or Young Dentists [...]

Young Dentists Germany (BdZA), a member of Young Dentists Worldwide connects the young German colleagues and offers them information and perspectives for their start into career. To push this, the Executive Committee of BdZA and their consultants are working on new topics and built up work groups for the concrete goals: The first project is working [...]

I’ve put a couple of pictures of one of the cases below showing the patient before and after provisional restorations. I built all these with direct composites free hand and a quick acrylic denture. However due to the sheer amount of composite and the amount of staining being picked up (heavy smoker, that acrylic shade [...]

Each year during the FDI- congress, Young Dentists Worldwide provides a forum for the young generation. Until the 15th of May young dentists are kindly asked to apply for lecturing during the forum. This year the FDI congress takes place from the 2nd until the 5th of September 2010 in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. The [...]