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GDPUK.com Opinions: John Renshaw - A Fairy Tale

Heart Your Smile, the dental charity with a mission to find innovative ways to promote oral health and regular dental visiting, has devised a Market Index which charts the growth of dental activity and patient uptake across the spectrum of dental care in the UK. This is based on industry figures for sales of dental treatment gloves and dental local anesthetics, providing a proxy for the volume of dental visiting actually taking place.

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GDPUK Opinion: Nick Park - Incorporation, My Way.

Nick Park sets out how he decided to incorporate his practice whilst also looking forward to the time when he would wish to retire, or sell the controlling shareholding.
Many dentists in the UK might have done this, or Nick might be the only one. His decision to open up the ownership of the practice may influence others to imitate, and motivate their teams in an original way.

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GDPUK Opinion - Stephen Hudson

Stephen Hudson BDS MFGDP writes a thought provoking article about the popularity of our profession. How do the public see dentists and the profession? Has this changed over the years and will it change in the future?

Are dentists and other professionals "different"? Should they be judged by differing standards? And has the long term attack in the UK on the rights of the professions affected dentistry more or less than other professions?

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GDPUK Opinion - Chris Potts - The Corporate Dentistry Scene 2008

Chris Potts BDS, former Dental Director of Boots Dental, gives his views and opinions on the background to the corporates in UK dentistry, where they are now, and what he thinks will happen.

With Duke Street Capital about to pay more than £120m for Oasis Dental, and therefore placing a valuation of more than £100m on Oasis' goodwill, this analysis hits the spot.

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GDPUK.com Opinions:: Lester Ellman - Are we together?

Lester Ellman, who needs no introduction to UK dentists, asks if colleagues today are pulling together and maintaining the high ideals of our noble profession.

There are pressures on practitioners that had not been thought of years ago - how are we coping?

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This is one of those flashback/PTSD moments. It takes me back to a very stressful period in my life when I came close to ending it at various moments. The process of registering as a dentist in the UK for someone who was from outside the EU/EEA was onerous.

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