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The Tom Bereznicki Award for Advanced Aesthetic Dentistry, which promotes aesthetic dentistry skills and patient care, is now open for entries to the 2026 competition.

The College offers its congratulations to Professor Chris Tredwin FCGDent, who has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to dentistry.

Senior College representatives were among dental leaders recently addressed by the Minister of State for Health and Social Care, Stephen Kinnock MP.

The new issue of the Primary Dental Journal, highlighting the power of leadership for all members of the primary dental care team and its impact on their patients, is now available online.

Members of the College have been appointed to the Executive Committee of the British Association of Dental Nurses (BADN).

Dentists interested in the Certified Practitioner schemes in Endodontics, Oral Surgery and/or Implant Dentistry can now register their interest online to be notified once application requirements have been finalised and applications opened.

An event will be held in the new year to celebrate the historic and ongoing contributions of both the College and former Faculty of General Dental Practice UK (FGDP) to raising the quality of education and practice in implant dentistry.

Twenty-three national dental organisations have come together to support WAAW 2025. Dentists prescribe 10% of antimicrobials in the UK and Ireland, and there is evidence of increasing rates of reported resistance to many antimicrobials in head and neck infections.

The College will be hosting the Lindsay Society for the History of Dentistry for the delivery of the 31st annual Lilian Lindsay Memorial Lecture, ‘Movers and shakers: remembered and forgotten’, by Margaret Wilson.

The College has published an updated policy on its acceptance of Indian postgraduate dental qualifications when determining eligibility for its highest grades of membership.