Why not have some fun with this and add your own suggestions? The Boomer Dentist (age over 55) The GenX Dentist (age 40-55) The Millennial Dentist (age up to 40) sell/retire and slow down expand find work the same team a new team no team refer to specialists hire specialists become a specialist buy a
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Visiting the BACD conference on Saturday was the equivalent of an alumni meeting – the usual suspects were in attendance. Which had me thinking. Around 24,000 dentists in the UK. Of whom 20% take notice of what’s going on in the clinical and business world of dentistry. Of whom 20% regularly attend conferences, trade shows,
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A week today the BDIA annual trade show will open at the NEC and, as usual, I’ll be there ready for 3 solid days of networking. Back in 1996 I first walked through the door at in Birmingham and spent my time wandering around a room full of strangers. Attending was one of the defining
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Back in the 1980’s I was the pension advisor for a client who owned and ran a petrol station in Blackpool. As we inspected his accounts he taught me that the difference between winning and losing in his business was a car wash. The profit margins on the petrol were controlled by the big oil
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Interesting to get two separate perspectives on the work you do. This morning I receive an email from a client: “I have asked over the  years for advice, from my accountant, bank manager, father-in-law, staff, friends, family and the advice is always conservative, and almost negative, and when taken, has been unsuccessful (I do generalise),
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Hi Chris, I hope you are well. I was wondering if you can help me? The company I am working for is holding a Core CPD course next Friday at Stratford Town Hall East London. Two of our speakers have let us down, I wondered if you knew anybody who could speak on Radiography and
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1, 2, 3, 4,… … .. ………I detect a price war. This post began after a conversation about Invisalign. Three years ago you heard about it now and then. Two years ago it started to grow in mentions. Last year some practices survived by marketing and selling it. To make a decent profit you had
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Dentinal Tubules 24 May at 08:51 Reply For all friends who have supported us by joining our site at www.dentinaltubules.com, we are very grateful. We are very passionate about sharing dental knowledge, information and ideas. We continue to ask for your support to make the best online dental community. So please do go to www.dentinaltubules.com
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OK team – good feedback. I just got mightily irritated yesterday afternoon. What with? GDP-UK forum members, many of whom I have never met, who seem to have an inside track on my business philosophy, my ethics, my track record as a trainer, coach and consultant, my personal lifestyle, how many holidays I take, the
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There seems to be a conversation “out there” that private dentistry is somehow in opposition to NHS dentistry. That corporates are in opposition to independents (and each other). That the PCT’s are in opposition to principals. That associates are in opposition to owners. There has to be “opposition” to keep some people engaged to the
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