A summary of: Xiong X, Wu Y, Fang X et al. Mental distress in orthodontic patients during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.ajodo.2020.07.005 COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic on 11th March 2020. Orthodontic treatment was halted due to the risk of virus transmission. 48 orthodontists were[…]
Welcome to the MUDRsoc blog! For those of you new to this website, we are a student led dental society with a focus on research opportunities for dental students at Manchester. Our main event being the British Undergraduate Dental Research Conference held for all dental students to experience exciting talks and workshops from well known[…]
12 tips for 2020 MUDRsoc is back with a new blog and we want to wish you a Happy New Year! We hope you all had a nice break and are ready to get back to Uni. This blog lists 12 tips you might find useful for the new year. Here we go.. […]
Hello and welcome to the first blog of the year! We are thrilled to introduce you to the new committee members for this year, giving you an insight about how we will be working together in order to bring you exciting events as well as organising the anticipated annual British Undergraduate Dental Research Conference. And so[…]
You check your timetable, and you see you’ve been scheduled onto your first OS clinic. How are they letting you loose on extracting teeth, when you’re still getting to grips with using a dental mirror?! Try not to panic! This article aims to equip you with the basic knowledge to confidently head onto Oral Surgery[…]
Being a dental student can be stressful; there are exams, essay deadlines, not to mention the thought of your first extraction or RCT looming over you. It’s easy to get caught up in the whirlwind that is dental school and forget there is a whole world out there post-graduation, with its own unique challenges and[…]
Hey guys! Welcome back to the MUDRsoc blog. It’s been a few months since we’ve last posted, but in the time that’s past, we have been busy recruiting new members to join the committee, as well as planning lots of new and exciting events for you all to attend, not forgetting the annual British Undergraduate[…]
On Thursday 19th April, the MUDRSoc held the third event in its Dental Fundamentals series. This lecture was given to us by Dr Neil Patel, Specialist in Oral Surgery. Dental implants are becoming a more refined technology, as well as an increasingly used technique for treating patients with various needs. Dr Patel began his talk[…]
On Wednesday the 11th of April, the MUDRSoc held its first in a series of wellbeing events this term, the posture and stretching workshop, which was lead by Rachel Morris. As dental students, we spend a lot of time working on clinics. This means we spend a lot of our time with bent backs and[…]
With exam season just around the corner, we’ve put in some tips together to make sure you can get the best out of yourself this year: Stay Active Studying is a very stagnant activity, one where you will be sat for hours leaning over a notebook or computer. All this time sat down might tire[…]