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The secret dentist focuses on reasons to feel positive with a growing private dentistry potential this month. At the moment, wherever you look and whatever you read, the world appears to be in turmoil. COVID surges, climate change, overwhelming immigration, Chinese threats, staff shortages, supply chain problems, high energy prices, killings and stabbings, Middle East … Continued
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This month’s Secret Dentist calls on foundation dentist trainers to write to The Treasury about the lack of investment in NHS dentistry. Any dentist over the age of 40 has a duty of care to the UK population and younger colleagues. They need to lead by example and actively distance themselves from anything to do … Continued
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This month, the Secret Dentist focuses on ‘Freedom Day’ and how it hasn’t really changed the way we’re all living our lives. I am not sure what you were expecting on ‘Freedom Day’, but I found the difference certainly underwhelming. Down in my neck of the woods I have felt a certain easing of minds … Continued
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…to ditch NHS dentistry and get the whole profession to move in the right direction, the Secret Dentist says. What has NHS dentistry ever done for you? NHS dentistry began (along with the rest of the NHS) on 5 July 1948. It was overwhelmed, and then within two years the charges paid to dentists had … Continued
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The Secret Dentist urges us to remember that you are a healthcare professional and make sure you crave the right things in this month’s column. My column last month couldn’t have been more apt after what we saw happen in the world of football last week. Was it greed? Was it FOMO? Was it pure … Continued
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With consumption becoming a common indicator of success, The Secret Dentist encourages you not to get sucked in. Every day you are bombarded with messages that imply you need to earn more money or do better than you currently are. Otherwise you are missing out on the latest whatever it might be. Never a day … Continued
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Are you prepared to work into your 70s? The Secret Dentist explores the 100-year lifespan and what this means for a dental career. Congratulations! Just the fact that you are reading this will put you ahead of the game. The fact that you are reading it online means, percentage wise, you are at the younger … Continued
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Could a future outside of the NHS be good for dentistry? This month The Secret Dentist questions whether we might start to see the end of NHS dentistry this April. After writing last month, dear Boris put the new tough lockdown in place. The ‘top’ dentist in England – the CDO, Sara Hurley – was … Continued
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With so many groups in dentistry pulling in different directions, it’s difficult to have one common voice to help argue the bigger causes, the secret dentist says. The dental profession has the ability and opportunity to stake its place as the most powerful influencer in the UK. Bigger than the often quoted, most powerful influencers … Continued
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In the first of a new series, we introduce ‘the secret dentist’ who will cover the topics nobody else wants to talk about. In this first column they explain how the next generation of dentists needs to rise up and force healthcare into radical change. Everybody complains about ‘NHS dentistry’ but everybody blames somebody else. … Continued
