Its use is already commonplace in dentistry, I wonder where we’ll be in 10 years?…. Medical implants and printable body parts to drive 3D printer growth With 3D bio-printing in the pipeline, dental and medical applications could be worth $6bn by 2025 From The Observer / Guardian here. False teeth, hip joints and replacement kneesContinue reading “Medical implants and printable body parts to drive 3D printer growth”
Monthly Archives: August 2014
The Monday Morning Quote #280
It’s the end of the 4th of 5 weekends in the month of August, I am told that this is the first time for 800 years that there have been five Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays in August and that this will not happen again for another 800 years. I’d like to mark the event withContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #280”
GDC & ASA – a word of advice – not that I expect the GDC to listen.
This news release from the BDA brings to mind one of the earliest and most useful bits of advice my father gave to me, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging!” Will the GDC learn or will it carry on p..ing money up against a wall until it’s all gone? I likened Bill Moyes toContinue reading “GDC & ASA – a word of advice – not that I expect the GDC to listen.”
The Monday Morning Quote #279
“Live all you can: it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven’t had that, what have you had?” Henry James, The Ambassadors
Southern Dental circled by private equity bidders
From the Telegraph website. Southern Dental circled by private equity bidders Dentist chain looks set to become latest healthcare company owned by private equity as CapVest and Graphite compete for the business. Dentist chain Southern Dental is close to joining the growing list of British healthcare companies in private equity ownership as a sale ofContinue reading “Southern Dental circled by private equity bidders”
The Monday Morning Quote #278
I have posted this before but it’s worth re-visting if only for the photograph of the author by Jane Bown & the tale of how it was taken. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.“ Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho.
Gouted, Grounded, Gutted.
The training was going well, the sponsorship less so but the big push had always been planned for the last fortnight when I was set to make personal appeals to friends and family. Last Sunday morning I woke with a pain in my left foot, I put it down to a habit of walking aroundContinue reading “Gouted, Grounded, Gutted.”
The Monday Morning Quote #277
“Nothing will be done if someone waited till they could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.” Cardinal Newman
