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Today The Irish Independent gives some very basic tooth care advice- isn’t every child taught this?

Apparently not, according to the Daily Mail, which reports that 20,000 people in Southampton are soon to have fluoride added to their water supplies. This is in a bid to reduce “the large numbers of tooth fillings and extractions currently needed by children in Southampton.” Apparently 4 in 10 Southampton children have a filling by age 4.

Which explains the large amount of Britons turning to tooth whitening products to give them the perfect smile. The Daily Mail tells us that sales of tooth whitening products have increased by 15% since 2006 to £63million. All that money spent, just to look like Simon Cowell!

The Daily Mail details a medical report  which says that young women should try improving their fertility through natural means, like diet and exercise, before turning to IVF treatment. The report says that although IVF is perfectly safe, it can be costly, and due to the embryo implant procedures used, can result in multiple births where babies are more likely to be born prematurely.

American single mother Nadya Suleman, hit the headlines recently after giving birth to octuplets, bringing her brood to 14. Suleman conceived all 14 children through IVF. Suleman had 8 embryos implanted when a woman of her age should have no more have two.

The BBC continue their great coverage of dentistry news stories with their latest report on lab-grown teeth. You can read all about it here.

A US team have located the gene responsible for growing enamel, exciting news that could change dental care as we know it. Lab fostered enamel could now be used to repair and replace patients' damaged enamel, eliminating the need for fillings and dentures, music to an dentist-phobe's ears!

The Daily Mail also reported on this news here.

Ita O'Kelly had an interesting feature piece in the Irish Times back on Tuesday 10th February. She looked into dental treatment in Northern Ireland and in the Republic, and noted that many Irish citizens are travelling over the border for treatment, due to the weak pound. This is something we have noticed at RevaHealth, website users from Ireland are looking at dental clinics in the North. Dentist Martin MacAllister of Cavehill Dental Care is quoted as saying, "Within the last six months we are receiving about 12 new inquiries per
day, which translates into about 30 new patients per week.”

Ray Gordon of the The Irish Dental Association was also quoted, warning patients to "make sure that they are actually comparing like with like in terms of both materials used and procedures followed."

The BBC have always paid good attention to what is going on in dentistry in the UK and have had a couple of interesting pieces up on their news site over the last couple of days.

We’re going to be at the BizCamp “user generated business conference” at the Digital Hub on March 7th.
BizCamp is dubbed as a chance to cheer ourselves up and look on the bright side during these days of financial woe and doom. Caelen will be sharing his hard-won pearls of wisdom from the world of fundraising along with other Irish entrepreneurs like Niall Harbison of LookandTaste.com, Campbell Scott of IGOPeople and Keith Bohanna of dbTwang.

Click here for a full list of attendees.

We always like to hear back from patients who have found clinics through RevaHealth.com. But we're not really sure what to make of the following, which popped into Dave's inbox yesterday.

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At first glance, it appears to be a Bulgarian mushroom catalogue. Which is great, I mean who doesn't like mushrooms? But no, on further inspection, there is a post-it attached. And the post-it has been written by someone who found a Bulgarian dentist through RevaHealth.com. So the catalogue must actually be about Bulgarian dentists. A-ha, mystery solved! All those years of watching the Crystal Maze have really paid off.

Now all we have to figure out who the mystery patient is. So if you're out there, please let us know! We'd love to find out more about your experience in Bulgaria. Send Aoife a line on amurray@revahealth.com.

We're going to be attending the Microsoft BizSpark and Digital Media Forum Innovation Accelerator in Dublin on February 24th. There are loads of great speakers lined up including a good few familiar faces (Steve Collins, Siofra Flood, Chris Horn, Niall Harbison, and Joe Drumgoole), and it'll be a great chance for a lot of Irish start-ups to meet and share some ideas. 

Caelen attended the Innovate!Europe startup workshop at the Digital Hub yesterday and a few members of the team headed to the meet-up afterwards at 4 Dame Lane, lured by the promise of free drinks vouchers from our generous hosts!

Hi to Joe Drumgoole of Putplace, Alan O'Rourke of Toddle and Sean Fee of iFoods (soon to become Look and Taste) who we met on the night.

You can find a full list of attendees here.

Caelen, our CEO will be attending the Innovate!Europe Going Global event tomorrow. Innovate!Europe is a unique, three-part program designed to identify Europe’s most promising startups and accelerate their drive into the global technology market.

Afterwards, a few members of the Reva team will be heading to the networking meet up at 4 Dame Lane at 6.30. Hope to see some of you there!