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The Irish Mirror reports an Irish community sponsorship group has started a fundraising campaign in a bid to bring a 23-year-old Afghan woman to Ireland to finish her university education and become a dentist. The woman, who is referred to as Aisling to protect her identity, has been approved under...

A Dentist who illegally shared explicit photos of a woman on a website for swingers has been suspended from practising reports The Sun. Dominic Fletcher uploaded photos of himself in "intimate" situations with a former partner on to FabSwingers, an adults-only site for casual sexual encounters. He posted the pictures,...

Isle of Man Today reports on a dentist who was erased from the General Dental Council register, his registration having been suspended with immediate effect over concerns about his practice’s level of cleanliness and infection control. A struck-off dentist who was said to have a ‘filthy’ dental practice has had...

The Guardian reports UK officials are to meet with counterparts in Turkey after the death of a British woman during so-called Brazilian butt lift surgery at a private hospital in Istanbul. Melissa Kerr, 31, from Gorleston in Norfolk, travelled to the private Medicana Haznedar hospital for the buttock enlargement surgery...

A woman who thought she had an ulcer ended up losing part of her tongue to mouth cancer, the Mirror reports. Barbara Boyd, a 65-year-old former PE teacher from Kirkcaldy, felt something was wrong with the inside her mouth, but didn't discover it was a tumour for five months. She's...

The Mail features a piece says experts have said the protective aprons used at the dentist could be doing you more harm than good. The protective aprons used at the dentist could actually be doing more harm than good, top experts have said. Anyone having an X-ray at the dentist...

The Times reports children who drink caffeinated drinks such as Coca-Cola are at greater risk of future addictions as their brains develop differently, new research suggests. A study of 2,000 children aged nine and ten in the United States found that having daily caffeinated fizzy drinks was associated with poorer...

The Daily Mail reports a dentist who fled war-torn Syria to the UK in search of a better life was stabbed to death on his front doorstep by his son's father-in-law following a bitter row over wedding gifts. Mohammed Salem Ibrahim, 55, had invited Ahmad Alsino, 43, to his home...

A dentist from Leicester is embarking on a special mission to provide dental care to disadvantaged villages in Kenya, the Leicester Mercury reports. 47-year-old Shrik Kotecha will soon set off for two weeks to remote parts of the East African country. Shrik, whose mother is of Kenyan descent, qualified as...

The Metro features a piece on the side-effects of vaping, with advice from dentist Rhona Eskander. ‘Vaper’s tongue itself is not inherently dangerous; it’s more of an annoyance than a serious health risk,’ says Dr Rhona. ‘However, the concern with vaper’s tongue lies in the potential for it to mask...