This week, the Blog is extending its services to the Head of School, Dr Grey. For the uninitiated and those outside of Manchester, all staff and students receive a weekly update from the Head of School every week. It is traditional that it ends with a quiz (it’s a bit like the Big Quiz on [...]
Entries from April 2008
Weekly Update Quiz
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: competition · quiz
The Dental School Review 2008
April 24th, 2008 · No Comments
On Tuesday night the students and staff assembled in a city centre venue for an historic resurection of the dental school review. Mr Richmond and I think there has not been a student review since about 1990 when I was a student here and Dub be good to me by Beats International (aka Norman Cook/Fat [...]
Tags: News
Eddie is one and its not rocket science gaffer
April 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
Dr Grey has asked me to let you all know that his famous dog, Eddie (the beagle) is now one year old!
Ahh, isn’t he cute! It looks like butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth; he doesn’t look capable of chewing up carpet, shoes, books and all the things puppies do. Down in the park, Dr Grey can [...]
Tags: News · Public service
We don’t need no education…
April 20th, 2008 · No Comments
On Friday a select crew of us went to the Royal College of Physicians in London for a symposium entitled “Educating Dental Teams to Deliver Better Oral Health”. This was organised by the Council of Heads and Deans of Dental Schools, The British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry and Colgate.
For the cutter, you [...]
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The Cutter Selection….
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Today, this cutter was joined here in Manchester by a few more cutters from around the country for the committee meeting of the Association of British Academic Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (ABAOMS). Not sure what the collective noun is for a group of surgeons would be, let alone a group of academic ones. A BMJ [...]
Tags: Diary of an academic dentist · Music · News · Uncategorized


