This is from the most recent newsletter from the UNW Business Team and as usual makes interesting reading. Thanks to Alan Suggett and his team for sharing the information. The annual benchmarking statistics just issued by NASDAL show that dental practices have been contending with a significant increase in costs. In the tax returns ofContinue reading “Rising costs a factor for dentists in latest NASDAL benchmarking statistics”
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Cosmetic Iatrodontics
Martin Kelleher has been a voice of reason and humour in restorative dentistry, I first encountered him when he was a registrar at The London Hospital and I was a grunt of a house surgeon. He helped me out when I was involved in a dispute over the use of a dental chair. I hadContinue reading “Cosmetic Iatrodontics”
The Monday Morning Quote #209
“Learn the skills of your trade, and then seize the moment” Henri Cartier-Bresson
‘In Search Of’…
The Search for Joy. A wonderful one minute film from Nic Askew in Soul Biographies.
The Monday Morning Quote #208 Steve Jobs on acknowledging your own mortality
Excerpt from Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford Commencement Address “When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked inContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #208 Steve Jobs on acknowledging your own mortality”
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NASDAL benchmarking statistics released
The annual benchmarking statistics just issued by NASDAL show that dental practices have been contending with a significant increase in costs. In the tax returns of dentists in the year ending March 2012, the total average costs of running a dental practice equated to 67.6% of practice income. As a result, profits are almost backContinue reading “NASDAL benchmarking statistics released”
TGBSL #11 – Researchers grow teeth from gum cells
(TGBSL = The Greatest Breakthrough Since Lunchtime a reference to Colin Douglas’s book) From BBC Website Researchers grow teeth from gum cells Dentists may one day be able to replace missing teeth with ones newly grown from gum cells, say UK researchers. The team from King’s College London took cells from adult human gum tissueContinue reading “TGBSL #11 – Researchers grow teeth from gum cells”
The Monday Morning Quote #207
“The road that stretches before the feet of a man is a challenge to his heart long before it tests the strength of his legs. Our destiny is to run to the edge of the world and beyond, off into the darkness: certain despite all our blindness, secure despite all our helplessness, strong despite allContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #207”
The Monday Morning Quote # 206
“The illiterate of 21st Century will not be those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” Alvin Toffler Thanks to Sital Ruperella http://www.sitalruparelia.com