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You know how we all fall into the trap of calling a vacuum cleaner a ‘H**ver’, or a ball-point pen a ‘B*ro’. It is so easy to do, but we…

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…

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…

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…

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’…

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,…

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…

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…