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Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

Do you have an opinion or some- thing to say on any Dental Tribune UK article? Or would you like to write your own opinion for our guest comment page? If so don’t hesitate to write to: The Editor, Dental Tribune UK Ltd, 4th Floor, Treasure House, 19-21 Hatton Garden, London, EC1 8BA Or email: lisa@healthcare-learning.com VOCO GmbH · Anton-Flettner-Straße 1-3 · 27472 Cuxhaven · Germany · Tel. +49 4721 719-0 · www.voco.com SO TOOTH-like in the sum of its physical properties, Grandio® SO is the filling material that on a world-wide scale is most similar to natural teeth.** The advantages you will gain are: durable, reliable restorations, and above all satisfied patients. • Meeting highest demands, universally usable in the anterior and posterior areas • Natural opacity for tooth-like results using only one shade • Intelligent colour system with new shades that make good sense: GA3.25 and GA5 • Smooth consistency, high light stability, simple high-gloss polishing „I am convinced by GrandioSO’s similarity to natural teeth!“ Dr. H. Gräber Take advantage of current offers!* * Find all current offers on www.voco.com ** Please feel free to request our scientific product information. For more information please contact: Gregory Parmenter 07500 769 613 · info-uk@voco.com VOCO_Dental Tribune_Feb14_GrandioSO2_210x297.indd 1 23.01.2014 15:40:43 United Kingdom Edition February 2014 3News F luoride levels in drink- ing water do not lead to a greater risk of primary bone cancer, a new study has found. Researchers at Newcastle University found that higher levels of natural or artificial fluoride in drinking water in the UK had no impact on the inci- dence of either osteosarcoma or Ewing’s sarcoma in people 0-49. Dr Richard McNally of the Institute of Health & Society at Newcastle University led the study. He said: “This is the larg- est study that has ever been con- ducted examining the possible association between fluoride in drinking water and risk of os- teosarcoma or Ewing sarcoma. “Karen Blakey used sophis- ticated software to link together data on the geographical dis- tributions of bone cancer inci- dence and fluoride levels. Sta- tistical modelling of these data showed that there was no evi- dence of an association.” Andy Hall, chairman of Bone Cancer Research Trust’s (BCRT) Independent Scientific Advisory Committee, said: “Bone cancer is diagnosed in about 550 pa- tients every year in the UK and Ireland, many of whom are chil- dren. However, at present, very little is known of the factors which trigger the disease. “The study funded by the Bone Cancer Research Trust and reported by the team in Newcastle provides very im- portant reassurance to patients and their relatives that fluoride is not involved in this process and shows that more research is needed to find out how this potentially devastating form of cancer can be prevented.” DT Fluouridated water has no impact on incidence of bone cancer W elcome to this month’s edi- tion of Dental Tribune UK. Now we are settled into the new year (unless you just celebrated Chinese New Year, in which case Kung Hei Fat Choi) I hope all those reso- lutions you made are working well for you and your practice. This month the news is about the establishment of a workable system to allow HIV positive healthcare workers to return to work. Providing a certain criteria is met, healthcare workers – including dental professionals – with HIV will be allowed to work with patients, even where it is considered an exposure prone procedure (in which den- tistry often falls). This is fabulous news – for too long healthcare workers have either been stigmatised or forced to lie (or worse, live in ignorance) because the rules governing their working status have been left behind by infec- tion control procedures and ad- vances in medicines. Now people who have al- ready had such a life-changing event such as an HIV diagnosis do not have to face losing their working status and livelihood too. Let us support col- leagues who need it to get back to work and caring for patients where they belong. DT Editorial comment Fluoridated water does not increase bone cancer risk