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  • Exploring the science of kindness

    Can we reverse the trend towards putting ourselves first? Read more

    April 14, 2025 / insider

  • Averting disaster

    Will the recently announced £3m for additional dental training places have the desired effect? Read more

    February 11, 2025 / insider

  • Brush all you like

    … but if your diet is bad and you graze, you’ll have problems; that’s the message we need to get across Read more

    October 7, 2024 / insider

  • An inexorable path

    Insider: Without clear leadership, workforce improvement and incentives to invest, the political posturing will come to nothing – and NHS dentistry will fail Read more

    July 1, 2024 / insider

  • The year ahead

    Things are forever changing, hopefully for the better, but changing nonetheless Read more

    February 12, 2024 / insider

  • Acting in haste

    Decades in the making, why sprint to the finish when there is a risk of stumbling? Read more

    December 15, 2022 / insider

  • One-off chance to research

    We need to take stock, take advantage of the data generated and improve ourselves for the future There must be… Read more

    June 22, 2022 / insider

  • Here’s a plan…

    Looking forward to the coming year, I thought I’d look at what new things in dentistry interest me. Boringly enough, I… Read more

    February 14, 2022 / insider

  • A turning point

    We are near a critical mass. People I talked to have concerns about what is coming and a certainty there… Read more

    December 13, 2021 / insider

  • A brilliant accident?

    Thoughts are swirling round my head, about where dentistry was, the mire it is in, and the future landscape of… Read more

    October 20, 2021 / insider

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  • Time to come clean

    COVID-19 has meant that I’ve been restricted in my thoughts and planning. Let’s explore the future with hope and expectation.… Read more

    August 16, 2021 / insider

  • New model of care?

    I want to get over COVID-19. Not that I’ve had it. I want us all to get over it. I… Read more

    June 21, 2021 / insider

  • Admit the problem

    Everyone I meet says the same thing. We’re in a rut; Groundhog Day. Lockdown 2.0 has been hard for everyone.… Read more

    April 9, 2021 / insider

  • Prepare to recover slowly

    As I sat, pondering the announcement of a second National Lockdown in Scotland, I felt void of emotion.  At least… Read more

    February 10, 2021 / insider

  • More like a Mike Leigh film than Disney

    Here I sit, trying to write this piece with news of ever-increasing infections, restrictions and new dental (not) guidance. I… Read more

    October 9, 2020 / insider

  • Multiplying risk

    We need to find a way to get back to caring for our patients, quickly. I was talking to my… Read more

    August 24, 2020 / insider

  • 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

    June 15, 2020 / insider

  • How will we cope?

    The issue is how we effectively treat patients and ensure we have businesses at the other end We are living… Read more

    April 1, 2020 / insider

  • Let’s not be viewed as nay-sayers

    Starting a lively debate is the only way change can work well for all stakeholders Sitting down to write this… Read more

    February 17, 2020 / insider

  • School’s out. Well, changing for sure

    Imagine an educational institution with no courses. No subjects. No classrooms. No timetable. Sounds a bit out there, doesn’t it?… Read more

    October 14, 2019 / insider

 

  • A career conundrum

    Without a clearly defined pathway, there is little support to encourage progression up the dentistry ladder to the very top… Read more

    August 15, 2019 / insider

  • Spare a thought for the boss

    They’re always whining on about costs. Associates not working hard enough. Nurses chatting in the stock cupboard. Patients not paying… Read more

    June 17, 2019 / insider

  • It’s positively time to be more respectful of our profession

    A new year, a new me. Isn’t that the way it goes? Well thus far, as Arthur, I’ve been erring a… Read more

    February 12, 2019 / insider

  • BDA Scotland launches oral cancer action plan

    THE figures around oral cancer in Scotland make for sobering reading. It now kills more than three times as many… Read more

    December 18, 2018 / insider

  • Please relieve me

    The final part of my stress-related trilogy; or should it be the final nail in the coffin? Patients, money, staff,… Read more

    October 3, 2018 / insider

  • Dentistry in a Disunited Kingdom

    British and EU flags

    The United Kingdom is in a state of limbo following the result of the Brexit referendum

    Churchill once said: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms…” and we are now… Read more

    August 2, 2016 / insider

  • Scottish Dental magazine June 2025

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  • Learn from the best - a preview of this year's Scottish Dental Show is the cover article for April 2025

    Scottish Dental magazine April 2025

    In this issue: Mouth cancer awareness; Beyond the classroom; NSK at the Scottish Dental Show and more…

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