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  • What to expect in 2025

    With a new year upon us, Martyn Bradshaw, Director of PFM Dental, discusses whether 2025 should be the year to sell your dental practice Read more

    February 11, 2025 / management

  • Employment rights change on the horizon

    Employers should begin reviewing their policies and practices now, writes Emma Campbell Read more

    February 11, 2025 / management

  • Pre-nuptial agreements – a good investment

    Jennifer Broatch from Thorntons Law tells us why pre-nuptial agreements are not just for the super-rich and may be advisable for many, including dentists Read more

    February 11, 2025 / management

  • Do new inheritance tax reforms affect you?

    EQ Accountant’s Anna Coff discusses the impact on dental practices Read more

    February 11, 2025 / management

  • Key considerations for practice sales

    If you’re thinking about selling your dental practice in 2025, Joel Mannix shares five key things to consider Read more

    February 11, 2025 / management

  • The blueprint for sale

    Dental Accountants Scotland’s Victoria Forbes discusses maximising the value of your dental practice sale Read more

    February 11, 2025 / management

  • Caveat emptor

    I wrote a version of this piece several years ago when I was finding my feet in consultancy and analysis.… Read more

    September 19, 2023 / management

  • Life is never dull

    I’m delighted to introduce Linda Motherwell who is the practice manager at Allander Dental Care in Milngavie. It was great… Read more

    February 14, 2022 / management

  • Coping with change

    Take one day at a time and you’ll get there Read more

    August 24, 2020 / management

  • 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

    August 24, 2020 / management

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  • 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

    August 24, 2020 / management

  • 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

    June 15, 2020 / management

  • 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

    June 15, 2020 / management

  • 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

    June 11, 2020 / management

  • Getting past the due diligence stage – It really doesn’t need to be that painful!

    The list of questions to be answered when selling a practice can run to more than 40 pages; some thoughts… Read more

    February 17, 2020 / management

  • MDDUS Case Study: Charged After a Late-Night Stramash

    Remember, the GDC holds dentists to a higher standard of behaviour than is expected of the general public Day One… Read more

    February 17, 2020 / management

  • Just because the door can open, doesn’t mean you have to walk through

    Every dentist has experienced that elated feeling of pushing at an open door. It often comes after a period where… Read more

    February 17, 2020 / management

  • A Digital Decade in Dentistry

    We are continually moving forward, gaining experience from technology; even from tech that will be rightly consigned to history As… Read more

    February 17, 2020 / management

  • MDDUS case study: root canal treatment

    Mr X should have been advised immediately of complications during his treatment [ WORDS: AUBREY CRAIG ] Mr X attends… Read more

    October 14, 2019 / management

  • The problem with recruitment

    As a profession, we need to up our game to attract a good number of potential candidates [ Words: SUSIE… Read more

    October 14, 2019 / management

 

  • Strategy and tactics – often confused!

    Illustration of a chess piece in play

    Time spent on developing a clear strategy which management and staff can focus on delivering, would be time well spent… Read more

    October 14, 2019 / management

  • Time waits for no one

    Illustration of men pushing blocks

    Working smarter not harder takes effort, willingness to let go of old ideas and desire to embrace change [ words:… Read more

    October 14, 2019 / management

  • My role as treatment co-ordinator

    The job is still in its infancy but may become as common as that of practice manager words: SUSIE ANDERSON… Read more

    August 15, 2019 / management

  • The perils of wilful blindness

    Open your eyes, practice a bit of self-honesty and self-awareness to re-energise yourself and your practising career Wilful blindness is… Read more

    August 15, 2019 / management

  • Recruit, induct, develop

    Assembling an effective team is vital for both growing a practice and building a group Following on from JUNE’S article,… Read more

    August 15, 2019 / management

  • There’s no “just a…” in dentistry

    Every visit to the dentist – no matter how minor – is important to the patient, who should fully understand… Read more

    June 17, 2019 / management

  • Problem Patients come with greater risks

    MDDUS Case study Mr D, a young male adult patient, has a history of poor dental care. He had a… Read more

    June 17, 2019 / management

  • Outsource, automate, delegate

    Does this sound like you? You receive texts from 6.30am from nurses telling you they are sick and can’t work… Read more

    April 11, 2019 / management

  • MDDUS CASE STUDY: Permanent nerve injury

    DAY ONE Mr T attends his dental surgery complaining of pain in his lower left canine tooth. The dentist –… Read more

    February 12, 2019 / management

  • Get ahead. Start your 2020 vision now

    My grandmother described New Year’s Resolutions as “piecrust promises – easily made, easily broken”. With dawn of 2019, probably with… Read more

    February 12, 2019 / management

  • 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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