Interview

Meet the Guest Editor

A fine life in dentistry

Cristiane Da Mata: 'One of the biggest challenges in dental research is trying to prove that oral health is part of general health, and therefore equally important'

Chris Morris: 'The regulatory environment in which dentists practise has become ever more complex and demanding'

Rakhee Patel: 'We need to develop a skilled workforce in gerodontology'

• Kate Quinlan

Mick Armstrong - the politics and the science

• Stephen Hancocks OBE

Martin Woodrow: 'I think the profession has done itself proud'

Russ Ladwa: 'I've always stood up for people who can't speak for themselves'

Helen Nield: 'There will always be a need for the library as a facilitator of dental knowledge'

Trevor Coward: 'I never thought that just by making an ear for someone, it would change the way they are and give them so much more confidence - it's quite incredible really'

• Adrian O’Dowd

Shelagh Farrell: 'Dentistry must be pretty much the only branch of medicine that hasn't got its own royal college'

Peter Ward: 'Membership organisations can thrive and prosper'

• Stephen Hancocks OBE

Rachel Jackson: 'There is no more poignant time to consider art as therapy'

• Kate Quinlan

Stephen Hancocks: 'The BDJ is a very precious thing'

• Ruth Doherty

Alison Lockyer: 'You think, it's 2019, why is this happening?'

• Kate Quinlan

Peter Baker: 'It's wrong to expect women to bear the sole burden of HPV vaccination in order to protect not only themselves, but also men'

• Adrian O’Dowd

Periodontal treatment from the patient's perspective

• Barbara Warnes
• Louise Griffith

Bhupinder Dawett: 'I would like to see oral health research embedded into general practice activity'

• Jonathan Coe

Claire Stevens: 'If we get it right from birth, there is a chance we can raise this generation free of dental decay'

Jonathan Shepherd: 'People are entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts'

• Ruth Doherty