ONE of the few dentists who offers nitrous oxide or inhalation sedation — popularly known as laughing gas — is finding phobic patients are beating a track to her clinic.

As you can imagine, the decision to introduce the mandatory wearing of mouthguards at all levels of Gaelic football was met with mixed opinions among inter-county players.

The Irish Dentistry Association’s Dr Maurice Quirke claims not using a gumshield in Gaelic football is the equivalent of not wearing a helmet on a motorbike.