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Astoria Williams-Smith loves to smile, but felt the need to cover her mouth because of her teeth. But now she is set to receive a full-mouth makeover from Positive Image Dental as part of a fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda. Ms Willi...

Bizarre dares are all part and parcel of raising money for young people’s charity Big Brothers Big Sisters of Bermuda. Island celebrities have kissed a pig, jumped into a container of live roaches and thrown themselves into the sea in full beauty pag...

Cavity City is a dark and dreary place. People go in with pearly whites and come out with rotten, stained and missing teeth. To get there, all you’ve got to do is stop brushing and flossing regularly. La-Vawn Simons tours the sights in a children’s ...

A pharmacy in the West End has held a successful health fair. Caesar’s Pharmacy, in Sandys, organised the event on Saturday to promote good health and offer free screening to people to detect early warning signs of illness. Community nurses from the ...

Choose water instead of juice or other sweetened drinks for healthy teeth, a healthy body and a healthy Bermuda. This message is being promoted by the Oral Health Section of the Department of Health as part of Oral Health Awareness Month, which is r...

Primary students got to “play dentist” as part of a fun and educational programme run by Kerin Oral Care. As part of the practice’s Give Kids a Smile Day, the children learnt about oral hygiene and nutrition, and even got to dress up as dentists. Eac...

Veteran dental hygienist Zuri Samuels has opened her own dental practice. Ms Samuels, a qualified dental hygienist and dental assistant, said the new practice, Fresh Breath Dental, was the fulfillment of a career dream. She added: “It’s always been a...

The waiting period for routine oral health services is now up to eight months, the Ministry of Health, Seniors and Environment has admitted. Ten days ago, Government dentists stopped accepting new patients, as two employees finished their list of ac...

A fee increase for hospital medical and dental procedures has gone before legislators. Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Health, stressed that physicians have not seen the annual fees order change in the last two years, even after the sector fell by 1...

Government dental services have been scaled back temporarily due to financial constraints, the Department of Health said yesterday. The Oral Health section of the Department provides dental health services for school-age children, special patients, ...

The three Government-funded dental clinics that subsidise services for children, seniors, prisoners and those with special needs has stopped taking on new patients amid staffing shortages. The Hamilton Health Centre told The Royal Gazette that its s...

Early childhood tooth decay is being tackled as part of Oral Health Month. The Department of Health’s Oral Health section launched school-entry screening last year which focuses on the “decay experience” of children aged five or turning five. This ...