Dentistry Scotland Awards

New Practice

Have you started a practice from scratch or completely re-invented a redundant building during the last three years? We wish to reward the best developers and creators who have made significant business progress in a short space of time. Your practice must have opened after 1 January 2020.

• Provide images/videos, including before and after if appropriate
• Explain how the business has grown since it either opened or the changes were implemented
• Include marketing literature
• Discuss team training/development information
• Give evidence of uniqueness in your practice and how you go beyond the regular duty of care
• Tell us how you connect with the local community
• Include relevant testimonials and photos.

Team of the Year

Is your team special and should they be singled out for praise? Give your staff the recognition they deserve for being the best at what they do.

• Demonstrate a great team approach and focus to patient care
• Discuss how your practice invests in team development and training
• Show us how your team goes above and beyond the regular duty of care
• Provide evidence of connection with the local community
• Include relevant testimonials
• Include evidence and pictures.

Patient Care

How do you care for your patients? Do you get a lot of recommendations? Do you offer the highest standards of care and courtesy throughout a patient’s experience?

• Demonstrate a great team approach to patient care
• Show how you are different to a regular practice
• Provide relevant marketing material
• Discuss how you provide continuity and consistency of care to establish trusting relationships with patients
• Provide evidence of patient satisfaction and relevant testimonials
• Include examples of clinical excellence
• Supporting evidence and pictures are welcome.

Smile Makeover

This category requires submission of a clinical case and supporting notes.

• The entrant’s case will show maximum effort made to achieve the desired changes as conservatively as possible
• The case will involve the restoration of multiple teeth but probably no more than 10 teeth, using either composite or ceramic
• Minor orthodontic pre-alignment or periodontal plastic surgery may have been carried out before the restorations were placed but the major change in the smile will result from the restorations
• Provide a case report discussing the patient’s presentation, diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment execution, specifically including a discussion of how the case was treated as conservatively as possible
• Provide before and after treatment photographs
• Submit appropriate radiographs to support the diagnosis and treatment plan
• Submit clinical photographs of interim stages of treatment and/or stages of laboratory work if appropriate
• Provide any other supporting evidence.

Private Practice

If your patients are happy with the private service you offer, why not take the recognition for this? You don’t have to be 100% private and the practice can be new or well established.

• Include marketing literature
• Discuss team training and investment
• Provide pictures/videos of your practice
• Show evidence of uniqueness in your practice and show how you go above and beyond regular care
• Provide evidence of patient satisfaction and relevant testimonials
• Show us any unique features or design excellence that has been put in place to improve the patient’s experience and explain your objectives behind them
• Supporting evidence and pictures are welcome.

NHS Practice

If you’re running a successful NHS practice and your patients are happy with the service you offer, tell us about it. The practice can be new or well established.

• Include marketing literature
• Discuss team training/development information
• Provide pictures/videos of your practice
• Tell us how you are different to other NHS practices, what systems are in place to improve the patients’ experience and how you go beyond the regular duty of care
• Provide evidence of patient satisfaction and relevant testimonials
• Supporting evidence and pictures are welcome.

Young Dentist

We are looking to reward a student or newly qualified dentist under 35 (at time of application) who has shown significant achievement in their career to date or who continues to exhibit passion, drive and attainment.

• Demonstrate your hard work and drive
• Tell us about any achievements in your career to date
• Explain any hurdles you have overcome
• Tell us how you are different to other young dental professionals
• Give evidence of how you go beyond the regular duty of care to improve your patients’ experience
• Include relevant testimonials, marketing literature and photos.

Therapist of The Year

Hygienist of The Year

This category is for an outstanding hygienist or hygiene therapist: one that always goes above and beyond the regular duty of care for patients. This award is for an individual working for a practice (or several practices). It is designed to recognise an empathetic, innovative and effective approach to clinical care and the promotion of oral health.

• Demonstrate your passion for preventive care
• Show innovation in educating your patients
• Show how you have inspired colleagues to carry on the message of preventive care
• Demonstrate how you have carried the oral health message beyond the practice
• Clinical photography and credible and relevant testimonials will help the application.

Dental Nurse of The Year

Do you have one team member who you would like to congratulate? That one employee that always goes above and beyond the regular duty of care for your patients. Open to dental nurses exclusively.

• Demonstrate their hard work and drive
• Tell the judges of anything outstanding they have done or been involved in
• Show us how or why this person is special and any hurdles they have overcome
• Provide evidence of their excellent patient care
• Include relevant testimonials
• Include supporting evidence and pictures.

Treatment of Nervous Patients

Do you have a great team approach to treating nervous patients? Do you go above and beyond to help patients relax and feel more comfortable in your practice?

• Demonstrate an excellent approach to treating nervous patients
• Show how you are different in treating nervous patients
• Provide evidence of patient satisfaction and relevant testimonials
• Include relevant marketing material such as websites etc
• Supporting evidence and pictures are welcome.

Charity & Community Engagement Award

The winner will be a practice that can demonstrate a firm commitment to engaging positively with its community and good causes. They will have effectively managed their activities to ensure maximum impact for the business, the team and their chosen causes. They will be able to describe the actions taken and provide evidence of their commitments.

• Charity engagement – describe your approach to supporting charity(ies), what kinds of charities you support and the nature of the partnership
• Community engagement – describe the local community events, groups etc that you support, and any volunteering that the business has carried out
• Financial investment – describe how the business contributes to charity and community support, and other ways you have used to raise funds
• Management – explain the way that you manage and sustain momentum in your charity and community work
• Team engagement – explain how you have engaged the team in choosing the causes to support, encouraged their fundraising efforts
• Communication – describe how you communicate your commitments and achievements in charity and community engagement, and use your communications channels to profile your chosen causes.