ANZAOS Letter_30.03 Oral Surgery in Unprecedented Times for the General Practitioner The management of dento-alveolar infection is now complicated by the presence of the highly infective COVID-19 virus. It is reasonable now to assume that all our patients can be carriers of the virus. This…
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COVID update: 29 Mar 2020
ANZAOS letter 29.03 – COVID UPDATE President’s address 29 Mar 2020 Editorial We are operating in unpredictable times and I feel it is paramount that we take stock of our situation as primary health care providers. The extremely contagious nature of COVID-19 forces us to…
USYD Faculty Research Day
Congratulations to the University of Sydney post-graduate oral surgery registrars for presenting their research at the Faculty Research Day at the Camperdown campus yesterday. Mark Atkinson presented his topic “Between the Flags: A study of the retention of knowledge in emergency medicine by NSW Health…
Humanitarian Work in The Pacific Islands
Report written by Dr Malcom Coombs. Humanitarian Work in The Pacific Islands. In November 2017 Heather and I were transferred to The Kingdom of Tonga from The Marshall Islands where we had been supporting Humanitarian Missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints…
Practical Solutions to Practice Issues
Recommended upcoming CPD event: Practical Solutions to Practice Issues, The University of Sydney. 22-23 Mar 19, Parramatta, NSW, Australia. Click the link here to download the course overview. CPD Conference March Programme Outline
8th AACP Symposium
Recommended upcoming CPD event: 8th AACP International Symposium on Biological Stress. 15-17 Mar 19, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Summer CPD evening – 04 Dec 18
President Dr Eric Carter with Summer CPD evening presenters. Left to right: Dr Russell Lain (Specialist Forensic Odontologist), Dr Eric Carter (President ANZAOS), Dr Alan Reid (Head of Department, Oral Surgery and Diagnostic Imaging, Sydney Dental Hospital), Prof Tara Renton (Professor and Chair of Oral…
Newsletter January 2019
Welcome to 2019. The Association’s President, Dr Eric Carter, extends his warmest welcome to the new year. Click the link here to download the latest newsletter: January 2019 ANZAOS
Australian drug puts cancer cells to sleep
Australian scientists have taken a “major step forward” in the world of cancer research with the discovery of a new type of drug that can put cancer cells in animals into a permanent state of sleep. http://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2018-08-02/new-australian-drug-puts-cancers-to-sleep-in-mice/10064900