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Playfulness
August 7, 2014
I work at a number of practices and also travel around and talk to general dental practitioners in postgraduate venues. Nearly everywhere I go, stress is palpable in the air…
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What are we Doing so Wrong?
August 1, 2014
Imagine a major company which sells products that people really need in order to live healthy and comfortable lives. Everyone that does not use their services either has pain or…
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Shhhhhhh….. Confidentiality
July 25, 2014
What do Edward Snowden and UK health professionals (including dentists) have in common? Well, we are all working to increase security of information in our hands and quality assurance in…
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OMG – How Much?
July 11, 2014
Last year, our gas and electricity supplier sent a letter saying that our direct debit was going up by 40%. Admittedly, this was because we had been relying on ‘estimated’…
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Have a ‘Plan A’
July 4, 2014
We all suffer from a god-like belief that disasters happen to other people and not to us – complacency is our biggest enemy! Bad things do happen to nice people,…
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England Expects…
June 25, 2014
Early in the morning of 21st October 1805, at the start of the Battle of Trafalgar, Admiral Nelson sent a signal out to all his fleet saying “England expects that…
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Lose, Lose Choice!
June 19, 2014
New figures for the admission to hospital of children suffering from dental caries related health problems show amazing differences for fluoridated and non-fluoridated water. This has always been a controversial…
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Jaws – Nobody is Exempt!
June 11, 2014
There was an innocuous and small press release from the GDC last month. It simply read – “The UK regulator of dental practice, the General Dental Council (GDC), has successfully…
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