Undergraduate Success
Mr Jignesh Panchal a final year dentistry undergraduate at Liverpool has won the £1000 Harty Prize. The Harty Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best student essay in endodontics. The prize is open to any undergraduate dental student in a dental school within the United Kingdom or a dental graduate from one of these schools who has been on the Dentist's Register for no more than one year. The prize is intensely competitive and is awarded on the basis of the opinion of a panel of examiners appointed by the Council of the British Endodontic Society.
In other success Niamh Grant and Simon Duggal , Final year BDS students were presented with their British Society of Paediatric Dentistry 2016 Elective awards at the annual conference in Leeds. The prize is open to dental undergraduates across the country who propose to undertake elective projects concerned with improving oral health in children. This year Simon came in second place and Niamh was awarded the prize for her project investigating barrier to dental care in children which is supervised by Amanda Roberts.