On Left-handers Day this Friday 13 August, an elite group of Charles Sturt University (CSU) dentistry students will celebrate their uniqueness and the fact their left handedness won’t be an issue in their oral health profession with dental equipment now built to compensate for left-handed dentists. Based on a conservative estimate, 10 per cent of the world population is left-handed which is reflected in the dentistry course with three of the 25 second year Bachelor of Dental Science students being left-handed. “In the past some dental equipment such as chairs and instruments were designed with only right-handed dentists in mind,” senior lecturer Dr Sabrina Manickam from the School of Dentistry and Health Sciences at CSU in Orange said. “Charles Sturt University students are lucky enough to have state-of-the-art equipment at their disposal that caters for both left and right-handed people.”