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Dentists have heard it before! Every year, at this same time, patients appear with a strange affliction. You all know where I`m going with this. Typically, it starts with us…

It`s so easy to lose track of why we do what we do.  What`s the point of being in practice?  If we dig down deep into the all the reasons…

Make sure you are legal It`s difficult to say this, but many dentists are breaking the law without even knowing it.  Sometimes, we want to help people out by making…

New Contract, New Question The new GP contract has been hailed as a significant breakthrough after last year`s around the 2013/14 negotiations.  GPC chairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul said the deal…

Free advertising!                                                                                                               The Office for National Statistics says that the number of Britons going online has doubled since 2006 and almost half of the 33 million current UK internet users…

There are a whole stack of laws which combine to govern how we practice. Most of them are directly related to healthcare or the issues of governance in our clinical…

A recent study carried out for the Association of Dental Groups (ADG), which represents private dentists, found that patients are going to their GP with concerns over their oral health…

There was an eye-catching headline on the BBC website this week. “Nursery toothbrushing saves £6m in dental costs” Many of you may not have heard of the ‘Childsmile’ project. This…