The HSE will claw back funds from any hospital or health agency which continues to flout a ban on top-up payments to senior officials.

A surgeon to the stars, a humanitarian, a business leader, and a pioneering dental researcher who has inspired a generation of dentists, are to be honoured by their university for making their mark on the world stage.

It’s the free trip to the dentist that could just save your life.

MORE than 700 dentists are joining dental schools in Cork and Dublin next Wednesday to offer free painless tests for mouth cancer, a disease that is killing two Irish people every week.

THE contribution of two Cork-based dentists to scientific research has been recognised by their international colleagues.

TEACHERS at Cork University Dental School and Hospital have voted overwhelmingly for industrial action if the college proceeds with its plan to introduce work practices changes on Monday to deal with a funding shortfall.

TEACHERS at Cork University Dental School and Hospital have threatened to take industrial action if the college proceeds with its plan to introduce work practice changes from next month to deal with a funding shortfall.

LACK of funding has forced doctors in Cork to stop a unique treatment programme where patients who lost facial parts to tumours were able to have their faces rebuilt.

CHILDREN eligible for orthodontic treatment are being denied treatment in many areas and parents are being forced to go into debt to send them to the North for treatment, it was claimed yesterday.