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H. S. Brand of the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam, and movie buff, continues his new series of columns on films featuring dentists with The Dippy Dentist (1920), directed by Alf Goulding
Rose Xi Man Poon, a final year dental student from University of Dundee and fellow students Ai Tan, Thean Wei Yap, Christy Ng, Jonathan Lewis, Ciara Rocks, and Erin Macaskill continue a series of articles on the topic of 'The Perfect Smile', looking at the perception of different perfect smiles around the world.