The advertisement on indeed.co.uk looking for staff, or should that be “new team members?”, has some interesting comments from the people who have experienced the fun of being part of The Smile Direct community. Take a look and make your own mind up but it smacks to me of a sales driven, under trained, workforceContinue reading “Come and work for Smile Direct!”
Category Archives: Dentistry
Do dental patients know what they want?
Do (Dental) patients know what they want? A recent article in the British Medical Journal discussed the instruction from Health Education England that patients and public should be consulted on ‘What they need from 21st century medical graduates’. I’m reminded of Henry Ford: ‘If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told meContinue reading “Do dental patients know what they want?”
Oh the places I will go – Part 3 – Bounceback
Part 1 – The World at my feet Part 2 – The World at my feet – in pieces 18th March 1993 My 40th birthday and a very significant date in the life of my practice. In the wake of the 1990 NHS contract and subsequent clawback of fees a group of dentists in GloucestershireContinue reading “Oh the places I will go – Part 3 – Bounceback”
Mouth Cancer Action Month
The report can be accessed here
There’s Floss and There’s Gourmet Floss
If you’re looking for something different for your patients as stocking fillers this Christmas, some interesting flavours of Floss. They do toothbrushes too, Silk, Badger, Horsehair & a “rinky dinky” little Tongue scraper. (from the “How To Spend It” section of the Weekend FT) Take a look online here.
The more things change…
From the editorial in the current BDJ “Each generation believes that it discovers everything for the first time and suffers each difficulty anew. Is it that a certain personality type was (and is still) attracted to dentistry? If so, does this partly explain today’s burnout statistics as much as it did then? ‘In 1913, DormerContinue reading “The more things change…”
Peri-implant Disease
From The Blog of the Campbell Academy. – a routine “must read”. “….It is absolutely crystal clear the patients who attend for routine maintenance get very little amounts of Peri-implant disease and the disease that they get is hugely treatable. Whereas it is also absolutely clear that if they don’t attend the incidents of Peri-implantContinue reading “Peri-implant Disease”
Who do you trust? Who can you trust? from GDPUK
My latest post for GDPUK: One of the main tenets of Professor Onora O’Neill’s arguments around the theme of trust is that we must aim to have more trust in the trustworthy but not in the untrustworthy. She says, “I aim positively to try not to trust the untrustworthy.” Which brings around the questions. WhoContinue reading “Who do you trust? Who can you trust? from GDPUK”
Why wouldn’t you?
I have a hoard of unpublished blogposts, some half written, some one line ideas, they are the result of experiences, ideas, conversations, things read, seen or thought. This one came about after talking to a client about his team routinely recording their patients’ blood pressure and pulse. Increasingly dentists ought to be seen as OralContinue reading “Why wouldn’t you?”
What makes some people more productive?
Time management in Dentistry continues to be a massive stumbling block to success especially when “speed” and “effectiveness” are confused, one leaves you knackered at the end of the day and not earning properly, the other brings rewards that you can appreciate. We all have the same amount of minutes in an hour, hours inContinue reading “What makes some people more productive?”
The Incisal Edge 