Owen Francis Makinson was a member of the dental faculty at the University of Adelaide and a specialist in conservative dentistry. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Charles Rowbotham, who has died aged 93 following a stroke, was an icon of operative excellence for decades of Manchester dental graduates. A clinician of outstanding technical ability, he challenged all about him – colleagues as well as students – with perceptive comments on new developments as wel