Prize winning dental work

Final year dental student Alban Higgins has been awarded the Dall Medal, for his successful creation of an upper central incisor.

Alban was one of a group of five dental students who entered the competition, organised by Dental Instructor Bill Sharp. Bill said, "Each student put a great deal of time and effort into the fabrication of their metal ceramic crown and the over all standard was very good."

The Dall Medal award is funded by a legacy bequeathed on William Dall's death in 1936 by his wife. William Dall was an early innovator in British dentistry who specialised in the development of dental ceramic porcelains. A jeweller in Fife, Dall went on to train as a dentist in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow.

Alban was presented with the medal by Professor Bill Saunders, Dean of Dentistry and Head of Department of the Dundee Dental School.