The Carlyle Group, in partnership with Palamon Capital Partners, is to acquire Integrated Dental Holdings and merge it with Associated Dental Practices Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (Carlyle) announced today that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire Integrated Dental Holdings (IDH), from Bank of America Merrill Lynch Capital Partners (BAML CP),
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Here is an update from the Bridge2Aid team in Tanzania. Some of you will recall that the Dental Business Club is involved in the B2A Unity Partnership. If you’d like to read more about it click here. “Training took place in Kahama. Each day has been full and all Clinical Officers are coming along well.
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Sublime Dental is a private practice in Stockport, Cheshire. Our highly enthusiastic, forward thinking team are committed to delivering dentistry the right way! We enjoy caring for the individual needs of our very appreciative private patients. We understand that you need a well-equipped and spacious surgery with all mod cons. We focus on exceptional customer
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If you’d like to learn more abouthow guru by Sotfware of Excellence can work best for your practice then this webinar is not to be missed. Title: Increasing treatment plan acceptance with guru. Duration: 1 hour Date: 9th Feb 2011 Time: 18:00 hrs Register at: www.fsmevents.com/soeidental Content:  Introduction by Ashley Latter Product demo and discussion by
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“Welcome to BranchOut… the first career-networking tool that allows you to search… browse… and utilize your FACEBOOK friends’ career information as a valuable resource.” This is the message you receive when you load the application on Facebook called Branch Out. There have been some complaints about its spamming nature and I asked my social media
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Here’s how you know. Yes or no: we have a full range of social media marketing activities Facebook Twitter You Tube Foursquare Linkedin Blog Ezine we use a range of videos practice tour interview with the principal interviews with team members testimonials from patients we use special offer micro-sites we capture data from ALL visitors
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The following question from a dental principal. “The government has, in their wisdom, announced a Bank Holiday on the date of the Royal Wedding, 29 April 2011. Not being a royalist I find this irrelevant at best, however, who pays the staff for this extra Bank Holiday? I am told that employers do not have
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Assuming a 10% FTA rate. hygienist doing S&P – £450-500 per day hygienist doing S&P and regular whitening – £700 per day therapist doing S&P, regular whitening and simple fillings – £900 per day and at £30-35 per hour for the delivery, you need to be charging the work out at £100-110 an hour. Therapists
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• the micro-managing principal • the 50% associate • hygienists with no therapy qualification • full capitation • miserable team members • rude patients • old-fashioned practice managers • the family dental practice • the UDA • supervised neglect • dilapidated premises • referrals from GDPs to specialist referral centres Can you think of any
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A number of friends who are members of GDP-UK have been sending me copies of a developing thread on the subject of how to hire a business coach and who to hire. The “who” conversation is none of my business – there are excellent coaches, consultants and trainers out there – Sheila Scott, Kevin Rose,
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