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News All smiles on Centre Court SMILE TRAIN
There were plenty of smiles in the crowd at SW19 when Dunblane’s Andy Murray won the men’s singles title at Wimbledon, but few were more special than 11-year-old Pinki Sonkar’s. Pinki was chosen to perform
the coin toss at the match on Centre Court on 7 July on behalf of Smile Train, the tour- nament’s charity partner. Smile Train is the world’s largest cleft lip and palate charity and Pinki is one of the organisation’s most well-known patients. In 2007, she received free
life-changing cleft repair surgery, thanks to Smile Train, and has since starred in the Oscar-winning documentary short Smile Pinki. The film tells the story of five-year-old Pinki growing up in one of the poorest areas in India – Rampur Dahaba village near the city of Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh – ostracised because of her deformity and living a life of quiet desperation as she waits and wonders if she
Pinki with Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, flanked by umpire Mohamed Lahyani (left) and championship referee Andrew Jarrett
will ever get the surgery she so desperately needs but which her parents simply cannot afford. Professor Peter Mossey,
professor of craniofacial devel- opment and associate dean for research at Dundee Dental School, works closely with Smile Train and is a friend of Pinki’s surgeon, Subodh Singh. He said: “The real value of
Pinki’s story is that her situa- tion has been the norm in rural India for decades. Cleft repair surgery [carried out through a number of charitable organisa- tions such as Smile Train] is
BDTA heads back to Birmingham
EXHIBITION
With more than 330 stands already sold, the UK’s largest dental exhibition is heading back to the NEC in Birmingham on 17-19 October.
The 2012 BDTA Dental Showcase saw more than 13,000 members of the dental profession and trade attend the event, held at ExCel in London’s Docklands. This year, the organisers are hoping for similar numbers and have put together a series of mini
lectures offering valuable CPD hours.
A number of exhibitors will also be presenting mini lectures throughout the exhibition, including Oral-B, DMG Dental, PFM Dental and Shofu. As well as these, there will be a number of on-stand presentations from the likes of RA Medical, Dentsply, Colgate, Care- stream Dental, Practice Plan and NSK.
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not just a second chance at life through the transformation and rehabilitation that follows, it is literally life saving for many infants like her who, in the past, did not survive long enough to have their surgery done. “She has now become a
symbol of hope for children born with clefts in low income settings throughout the world.”
® Turn to page 20 to read about Prof Mossey’s involvement in a tri-lateral research programme into the causes of orofacial clefts in India.
Forum for practice managers Dental plan provider
Denplan has launched a series of Practice Manager Forums designed to help practice managers concentrate on their own growth and development. The first forum will be held on 25 September at the Macdonald Houstoun House in West Lothian. The day’s programme will cover topics such as appraisals, HR issues and goal mapping as well as updates on sharps management, Direct Access and the new GDC standards.
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www.denplan.co.uk or email eventsandtraining@
denplan.co.uk
New start for Genix Healthcare
Genix Healthcare is pleased to welcome Alex Handley, who joins the company as recruit- ment and marketing manager. Alex previously enjoyed a
five year stint at Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH), where he held the position of recruit- ment partner. This saw him recruiting clinicians from all over Europe and more recently responsible for talent acquisi- tion and development. Prior to this Alex worked as a senior consultant for Hays. Alex said: “Genix Healthcare
is truly the employer of choice within the UK dental market. It was the first dental corporate to create a national appren-
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ticeship scheme for dental nurses and recently opened the UK’s largest dental laboratory, Sparkle Dental Labs. “Coupled with the fact that
Genix Healthcare has some of the best quality NHS surgeries in the UK it was a simple decision to make.”
® Call 0845 838 1122, or email recruitment@
genixhealthcare.com or visit
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