A web site that features simple line drawings with deep messages. The phrase “perception is reality” echoes in my mind as I look at this graphic. How many times do we tell ourselves that we are “failures” – and how many times “successful”? Fact is – we display both characteristics during every day of our
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The simple fact is that Madonna’s “Sweet and Sticky” show on Saturday was fantastic. I expected less, especially after the wonderful “Circus” that Take That created a couple of weeks ago and a cracking night at Edinburgh’s Playhouse with Seal. Madonna, like my good self, has her fans and her detractors – a real Marmite
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My point being…. If you do want to put a notice on a wall in your practice. Don’t use Blu-tack, cellotape or laminate. Frame it.

Yes – on the same day – I can hardly contain myself 😉 I’m in Regents Park this morning, after a lovely dinner with friends last night at Villandry, and just about to pop over to the Hilton Olympia to attend the launch of James’ new product, Smilestrip. I’ll let him tell you about that
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Lousy photograph – but at the front, there I am, presenting my comments on the past, present and future of Uk dentistry to a crowd of 45 who attended La Tasca Spanish restaurant last night. We didn’t get started until almost 20:00 and, as tribes of late commuters and early revellers swarmed over the pavements
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There are days when it all just goes according to plan: the hotel is in the right location the traffic doesn’t snarl up the room is airy, well-lit and air-conditioned the room layout is correct the organisers do a great job of hosting (thank you Practice Plan) the guests are all in the mood the
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I was privileged and a little flattered to be invited to say a few words at the opening of Sanjeev Bhanderi’s new Endo61 practice in Gatley, Cheshire last night. There was an exceptional turn out of dentists, team members and other well-wishers – and a real trip down memory lane for me as I bumped
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…is the people I meet. James Hamill of Blueapple Dental in Northern Ireland sent a photograph over the weekend. and the smiles on the faces of myself and Sonya in the photo represent the culmination of a productive day in practice and a 3-year vision that is helping them become one of the most successful
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I’m starting with the man in the mirrorI’m asking him to change his ways And no message could have been any clearer If you wanna make the world a better place Take a look at yourself and then make a change

My thanks to John Davies for bringing this to my attention Smile Pod appears to be a walk-in hygiene practice which wants to franchise. I’m confused at the term “walk-in hygienist” and then the reference that all treatment is provided by professional dentists (are there some unprofessional ones?). Of particular interest to me is the
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