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DENTISTS EXEMPT FROM MUSIC FEES
Dentists who play music in their surgeries are immune from music royalties claims, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.
The decision means that
practices throughout the European Union are exempt from paying royalties to licensing agencies because the music is not profit and has a limited audience. This comes as a result of a case brought against a Turin dentist and lead to the issue being raised by Turin’s Court of Appeal.
Rainforest remedy to revolutionise pain management
DISCOVERY
An ancient Incan toothache remedy could be about to revolutionise the management of dental pain, according to researchers from Cambridge University.
The remedy, handed down among the indigenous people of the Peruvian rainforests for centuries, is made from an Amazonian plant species called Acmella Oleracea.
Turned into gel for medical use, the first two phases of clinical trials have been described as “hugely
successful”. Scientists involved with the research believe that, if approved, the new medicine could hasten the end of current
reliance on local anaesthetics in dental use and NSAIDs in specific applications.
The drug was brought to the attention of a wider market- place by Cambridge University anthropologist Dr Françoise Barbira Freedman, the first westerner to be invited to live with the Keshwa Lamas in Amazonian Peru.
The remedy has shown no side-effects during the past five years of Phase I and II trials, and Dr Freedman is confident the stringent Phase III trials (multi- location trials across a diverse population mix) will be the final hurdle to clear. If successful, the product could be brought to market in 2014/15.
18 Scottish Dental magazine
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