Stimulating cash flow with patient finance
One of the first things many practice owners will have done at the start of lockdown would be to look… Read more
Multiplying risk
We need to find a way to get back to caring for our patients, quickly. I was talking to my… Read more
A question of confidence
It’s been tough. It continues to be so, despite the phased return to practice. Never has there been a moment… Read more
Lessons from lockdown – this isn’t normal
At times, the path out feels more like trying to escape from a maze Read more
Face-to-face training will return
But increasing and improving access to online CPD is the way forward Read more
Time for a radical rethink
Michael Dhesi, principal dentist at Greygables Dental, on his experience of lockdown and the future of dentistry Read more
Bridging the gap
Figure 1 - As part of their training rural health workers are taught to give appropriate oral health messages to their communities
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing cancellation of 2020 Dental Training Programmes, the UK NGO Bridge2Aid sees a positive future Read more
Growth will be back – and you can give it purpose
Never have practice owners, clinicians, regulators and public bodies needed to look more radically at the nature of service provision Read more
Is it time to try something new?
Continuous line drawing of three employees talking about work
The cycle of improvement depends on learning to leap and repeat the ‘S-curve’ process Read more
Coping with change
Take one day at a time and you’ll get there Read more
From the Magazine
In this together
Thank you for allowing us to be part of your patients’ journey Being forced to close our laboratory on the… Read more
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans
Preparing for this piece, I knew the direction that I wanted to take and the points I intended to make.… Read more
Musings on furlough
As I am sitting writing this article, it’s a bit overcast and I’m looking out of my window over some… Read more
We can see you now, virtually
To say that Gregor McPherson’s journey to becoming a dentist – aged 30 – was unusual, is an understatement. “I… Read more
Can simulation really be the future?
he middle of March found me travelling to Kuala Lumpur as part of a Member of the Faculty of Dental… Read more
Why we will have to adapt
he profession watched with concern as healthcare workers battled coronavirus across the globe. In early March we were preparing for… Read more
Practice faces drastic change
y diary from February to June of 2020 was busy. It encompassed formal duties in my role as an FGDP… Read more
Anxious, scared and upset
It has been a very difficult and challenging time. I’m a dental nurse working cross-site between the Paediatric Department at… Read more
I felt guilt, at home, conducting virtual clinics
Do I like working from home? I can’t say I do, beyond the lack of commuting. Despite putting in my… Read more
Already isolated, support for the homeless is on hold
What’s been your experience of the COVID-19 crisis and lockdown? Professionally, it has been a challenge to manage the crisis,… Read more
The industry looks ahead
ith conventional high street dentistry closed down for more than two months, the UK’s dental industry has seen a massive… Read more
A dental family; stronger together
very dentist has had a different experience of the COVID-19 outbreak. Some have seen their incomes evaporate almost overnight. Others… Read more
An opportunity for renewal
feel both hopeful and nervous,” said Professor Jason Leitch, Scotland’s National Clinical Director and, arguably, the public face of Scotland’s… Read more
Lockdown 2020’ raises webinar bar – and more than £37,000
Towards the end of March, Clive Schmulian was scheduled to present an NHS Education Scotland workshop on oral surgery. With… Read more
Feeling the pressure
Day 63 in the ‘Lockdown House’. If I could enter the diary room, what would I be saying? I’d be… Read more
Behavioural change
“Cross-contamination, laddie!” I grew up in the seventies and eighties; an era of individual freedoms and the age of unbridled… Read more
Managing yourselves, your teams and your patients in unprecedented times
I feel I can speak for our entire dental profession when I say the challenges of COVID-19 have been wide-reaching… Read more
Are you using the correct PPE?
The WHO recommends Type IIR 3 Ply fluid-resistant medical masks be worn by over 60s and those who have underlying… Read more
Expanding access to telehealth
Henry Schein Dental UK today announced the expansion of the company’s service portfolio with the addition of a teledentistry offering,… Read more
