One of the very few things that I miss about clinical practice is helping patients with gum problems to accept that they have a problem. Being the leader of the team in assisting patients to get themselves back to health and then ensuring that they maintained their health was so a source of great satisfaction.Continue reading “The Sound of Periodontitis – a great film produced by EFP.”
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Demand and not profitability dominates dental practice values – says NASDA
Demand and not profitability dominates dental practice values says the most recent bulletin from UNW Dental Unit. The latest NASDAL quarterly goodwill survey, for the quarter ending 30th April 2015, indicates that prices achieved on the sale of some dental practices are more indicative of high demand than the profits that can be achieved. TheContinue reading “Demand and not profitability dominates dental practice values – says NASDA”
The Monday Morning Quote #323
“Expect a lot from yourself, and little from others. A lot of trouble will be spared.” Confucius
NHS Confidence Monitor – your voice is needed.
If you are an Dental Professional and you are working under the current NHS contract as either of those demeaning terms provider or performer please take a few minutes to complete the NHS Confidence Monitor. The first of these surveys was commissioned by Practice Plan at the end of 2014. The results can be seenContinue reading “NHS Confidence Monitor – your voice is needed.”
“Which” kicks (NHS) Dentists – so what’s new?…and what to do.
Following on from another Consumer’s Association report. Dentistry is an easy target for any journalist that wants to have a go at a profession. Let’s face it, from Marathon Man through The Little Shop of Horrors via Lemming of the BDA and Robert Lindsay’s misanthropic, cynical and assistant sacking GDP Ben, dentists tend not toContinue reading ““Which” kicks (NHS) Dentists – so what’s new?…and what to do.”
The Monday Morning Quote #322
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.“ Pete Seeger, activist/musician
Barry Cockcroft joins IDH – caption competition…
The ex-Chief Dental Officer of England Barry Cockcroft is to join the UK’s largest corporate chain of dental practices, IDH – so recently cunningly re-branded as “MyDentist”. Any suggestions as to what Bazza was saying here?
The Monday Morning Quote #321
It’s a big week for Physics here at ReesAcres. So here are a couple of quotes from Niels Bohr who won the Nobel prize for Physics in 1922 for his work on understanding atomic structure and quantum theory. He later went on to work on the Manhattan Project having fled his native Denmark in 1943.Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #321”
The Weekend Read – The Second Curve by Charles Handy
I have been a fan of Charles Handy since I read “The Age of Unreason” in 1992 and his “Understanding Organisations” was one of the set texts on my MBA course at the Open University in 1994. He has a real grasp of the human condition, a rare intelligence and the ability to explain hisContinue reading “The Weekend Read – The Second Curve by Charles Handy”
The trouble with science
From John Naughton From an article by the Editor of The Lancet after attending a symposium last week on the reproducibility and reliability of biomedical research organised by the Wellcome Trust. “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes,Continue reading “The trouble with science”
The Incisal Edge 