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Shares sales when acquiring a business

  When acquiring a practice, do you want the assets or the shares? Kerry Brooks explains the difference. Where a…

Private Practice

Seeing the light in the dark

Nigel Jones on finding the real optimism about the future for UK dentistry. The recent report by Dental Protection, Breaking…

Dentistry

Direct to consumer orthodontics still needs face to face interaction, GDC says

Direct to consumer orthodontics should still include face to face interaction before treatment begins, the GDC says. A recent growth…

Orthodontics

Dentistry Top 50: have you cast your vote yet?

As the biggest reader campaign in UK dentistry continues, it’s time to start thinking about who gets your support in…

Dentistry

Orthodontic contract procurement: ‘NHS orthodontic practice is not sustainable in the long-term’

Richard Scarborough speaks to Guy Deeming about the orthodontic contract procurement process. The wrangling over the procurement of NHS orthodontic…

Orthodontics

Patient engagement at the first point of contact

Neil Hillyard discusses how you can ensure that prospective patients become ‘real’ patients. In our previous articles, we have looked…

Orthodontics

Becoming practice owners – a dental success story

  We speak to Shakir and Nafisa Mughal about their path to becoming practice owners and creating two successful dental…

Young Dentist

Adventures in hygiene with Andrea Hung

Andrea Hung details her dental hygiene career from Venezuela to Manchester via Barcelona. When Andrea Hung came to England in…

Oral health

Top tips for a smooth transition into general practice

Whether it be from a hospital post, a community post or after a career break; the transition to general practice…

Young Dentist

North of England Dentistry Show coming to Manchester

The North of England Dentistry Show is heading to Manchester on the 11 July for its inaugural bow. The biggest…

Dentistry

Securing excellent primary stability in soft bone

Waseem Noordin describes how he restored a patient’s ability to eat and talk effectively with an implant-retained three-unit bridge using…

Laboratory

Oxfordshire plans to become first smoke-free county

Oxfordshire’s Health Improvement Partnership Board is discussing plans to become the first smoke-free county in the UK. Action on Smoking…

Oral health

New to UCL Eastman: MSc in periodontology

Jacopo Buti explains UCL Eastman’s MSc course in periodontology. UCL Eastman Dental Institute already offers established and world-renowned programmes in…

Dentistry

A restorative solution for a missing incisor

Thomas Sealey presents an aesthetically challenging case to restore a missing upper left central tooth. This case presentation demonstrates a…

Dentistry

Helping dental phobics to have no fear

 Bashar Al-Naher discusses the Enjoyable Dentistry Technique – a method for treating dental phobics successfully, effectively and predictably. The Enjoyable…

Oral health

How Care Dental Platinum combines old fashioned values with new world technology

Stephen Hancocks journeyed ‘out west’ to visit Care Dental Platinum, a practice with a flair for style and attention to…

Private Practice

How does the NHS prototype contract affect dental associates?

Bhavin Patel discusses how testing the NHS prototype contract affected him as an associate working at Woodford Dental Care. Watch…

Dentistry

Smiledirectclub’s chief clinical officer risks losing license to practise dentistry

Jeffrey Sulitzer, CCO for Smiledirectclub, risks losing his license after a two-year California dental board investigation. The state accuses him…

Orthodontics

Reasons to love own brand

Ian Claydon-Butler explores the growth in popularity for own-brand products in dentistry. Own brand products have become a staple part…

Dentistry