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Community engagement – get stuck in!
May 29, 2015
News that the Peninsula School of Dentistry dental students have carried out projects which have had real impact in the community is fabulous. They have gotten involved in projects working…
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Those dreaded words…..
May 21, 2015
“As a consequence the Committee has determined to direct that (insert your name) be erased from the Dentists Register pursuant to section 27B(6)(a) of the Dentists Act 1984, as amended.”…
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Do we give patients what they want or what they need?
May 18, 2015
Further to the blog on ‘core practice’ here’s a few thoughts prompted by the famous American dentist Painless Parker. He was vilified for his shameless publicity seeking and advertising by…
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Backbone
May 8, 2015
I was watching a film recently which started with some older astronauts training for a mission. In a flight simulator, the problems were piled up, one on the other. An…
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Chief Dental Officer
April 29, 2015
So, with Barry Cockcroft now retired and enjoying life in the garden somewhere since February, we now have a new Chief Dental Officer. Barry’s credibility retired before him somewhat and…
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Don’t panic! – CQC Standards for Dentists
April 22, 2015
I’m now at least an inch shorter than last week, having walked for hours around the Dentistry Show at the NEC, Birmingham. My legs still ache, and a spot of…
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Positives or negatives?
April 15, 2015
OK, hands up. How many of us have taken part in practice meetings and had the time dominated by finding more problems than we started with, or the meeting deteriorating…
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The monster from 20,000 fathoms
April 8, 2015
For those who haven’t seen the 1953 film of the above title – and even I wasn’t old enough to see it on release – it is a horror film…
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