Author Archives: Alun Rees

The Greatest Breakthrough Since Lunchtime #21

(For the meaning behind the blog scroll down.) From Medical News Today No more needles at the dentist – just a tiny electric current instead If you’re scared of the dentist’s needles you’re not alone – but new research means you might not have to put off that appointment again. A study published in ColloidsContinue reading “The Greatest Breakthrough Since Lunchtime #21”

Unobtainiums and electric toothbrushes

Thanks to reestheskin for this. From The Economist’s book review – The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age. By David Abraham. Yale University Press, 319 pages; $30 and £20. So remember when you’re prescribing electric toothbrushes just what goes into them and what theyContinue reading “Unobtainiums and electric toothbrushes”

Hands-on training for complex dental implant procedures.

A challenge faced by dentists is: How to get hands-on training for complex dental implant procedures on cadaver heads? Quality trainings are few and hard to find because cadaver heads are not easy to organise.   We have created such a training that we are hosting in Coventry, UK, in March 2016 over a long weekend.Continue reading “Hands-on training for complex dental implant procedures.”

The joy of the teleconference – not.

Technology is wonderful and has enabled us to improve our communications over the past decade or two, it’s only when it doesn’t function as well as it should or has done in the past that we feel let down and frustrated. My home has “painfully” slow broadband which would have delighted me a decade andContinue reading “The joy of the teleconference – not.”

Look out your window I can see his light…

In the week of David Bowie’s death there has been much outpouring of grief. Someone said to me on Tuesday, “ever since Diana the British seem to have taken to weeping and mass emotion after the death of someone / anyone famous”. A trifle cynical perhaps Mr B, but I don’t disagree. Here is theContinue reading “Look out your window I can see his light…”

Don’t Pick Your Business Partners Based on Personal Chemistry

An article in the Harvard Business Review “Don’t Pick Your Business Partners Based on Personal Chemistry” was mostly about getting everything sorted legally and started: Having a good personal rapport with someone can help you see opportunities for working together, but chemistry is a poor foundation for business deals. Partnerships need to face tough analyticalContinue reading “Don’t Pick Your Business Partners Based on Personal Chemistry”

It’s difficult to remember the world before January 9th 2007 – Steve Jobs launches the iPhone.

His opening statements are: “This is a day I’ve been looking forward to for two and a half years.” “Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” At the time it seemed like hyperbole – with hindsight it was understatement. Whatever it was it marked a sea change in commerceContinue reading “It’s difficult to remember the world before January 9th 2007 – Steve Jobs launches the iPhone.”

Tesco v Waitrose v Lidl v Sainsbury

In his Pendlebury lecture of June 2014, the then recently installed chairman of the GDC William Moyes informed those present that, “Dentists and dental care professionals now have customers, not clients ………or, indeed, patients.”. It was nice of a government appointed non-clinician to share the official view with the profession, now who will tell theContinue reading “Tesco v Waitrose v Lidl v Sainsbury”