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How to Deal With Difficult People in Your Dental Practice Team – 5 easy steps

Figuring out how to deal with difficult people in your dental practice team and difficult situations can be a real headache and cause friction between practice owners and staff. Sheila Scott, leading dental business consultant,…

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4 Tips for Effective Selling in Dentistry

Richard Collard from Medenta breaks down the ‘trust equation’ for professional business consultants and explains how it can be used in dentistry, offering four tips for effective selling in dentistry.

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Ten Tips to Increase Your Dental Practice’s Website Presence

No one chooses a new dentist these days without first checking out their website; it’s convenient and not time restrictive. As a result, having a strong dental practice website presence becomes more and more important.…

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Blogging for your dental practice

Nikki Berryman, Dental Practice Business and Marketing Manager, gives the lowdown on blogging for your dental practice.

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How to Avoid Staff Wars!

As experienced business coach and psychologist Sheila Scott well knows, the biggest challenge facing managers or practice owners, at any time, is usually that of directing, guiding and motivating all team members. Most manage this…

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Bacterial Balance

Probiotics are regularly in the news, most notably for their benefits on digestive health. However, probiotics for oral health are a new and emerging field of research. With more than 600 species having been shown…

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Bite Back at Mouth Cancer – What to Look for and How

Many people are unaware that, in its very early stages, mouth cancers can be almost invisible making them easy to ignore. This is why it’s so important to keep a close eye on the health…

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Infographic – How Does my Dentist Check for Signs of Head and Neck Cancer?

Although It only takes two minutes to carry out a full oral cancer screen, do your patients really realise what you’re doing for them? Well, we’ve created a great little guide to share with your…

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Rubik’s NHS Blog – No.5

In this final instalment of blogs highlighting the unintended consequences of efforts to improve the NHS dental contract in England, the Rubik’s Cube effect, I want to touch on the thorny subject of when and…

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Stop Smoking, Start Healing

Run by Public Health England, Stoptober is a nationwide, 28 day, stop smoking challenge, which takes place during the month of October. Participants are encouraged to support one another in the challenge to quit and sign…

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Rubik’s NHS Blog– No.4

The subject of this latest blog continues the theme of solutions to problems with the English NHS dental contract having unintended consequences that create yet more problems. Hence the title of the blog!

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The Business Skills Theatre

Sarah Whittall, Events and Marketing Coordinator, introduces us to The Business Skills Theatre at this year’s BDIA Dental Showcase.

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Giving up Smoking! My Journey

It’s been 2 months, 12 days, 16 hours, 2 minutes and 11 seconds, (not like I’m counting) since I’ve done it! Gave up the fags I mean, the tabs, the ciggies and the rollies!

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What I learned…by Anthea Hardiman

If you’ve been using social media lately, chances are you’ve seen some reference to the Practice Plan Workshop Tour 2015, being hosted by Laura Horton and Michael Bentley, entitled ‘How to create your ULTIMATE dental…

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The Importance of Speaking the Language of the Receiver

https://vimeo.com/135350938 Have you ever been in a situation where you don’t understand what someone is trying to communicate to you? Like the above video shows, not everybody speaks the same language… There are times in…

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Supporting ‘Stoptober’

One of the UK’s best health campaigns Stoptober has now become an annual event throughout the month of October and since 2012, smokers have been invited to rise to the challenge of stopping tobacco use…

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Ringing the Changes

Converting telephone enquiries into consultation bookings is no easy task for the front desk team at any dental practice. I recently attended a workshop on this very topic, delivered by Director of Medenta, Richard Collard…

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Rubik’s NHS Blog No.3

In previous blogs I’ve drawn a comparison between trying to design the next English NHS dental contract and solving a Rubik’s Cube – as fast as you get one part sorted, you realise that, in…

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