Leading European and North America experts in the field of periodontology meet next week to discussing the systemic links between oral health and overall health. This topic will be analysed, evaluated, and debated intensely at a key academic gathering in Spain. From November 11 to 14, the Parador hotel in La Granja, Segovia in...
Presented in a Q&A format, ‘Tell Me About: Smokeless Tobacco’ contains information about the effects of smokeless tobacco, particularly addressing its relationship with mouth cancer. The leaflet also explains the health benefits of giving up smokeless tobacco, as well as offering advice on how to quit. Chief Executive of the British Dental Health Foundation,...
Particularly for businessmen, trying to reduce a tax bill is now regarded as a seriously anti-social activity, and the media, and more importantly the Government, seem determined to exploit the public mood by shifting the goalposts for tax avoidance. While tax avoidance is legal, tax evasion, the deliberate defrauding of HMRC by false declarations,...
When you look around your practice, you can quickly pick out the things that really make the practice run. Firstly, you need the tools to allow you to do the job – and secondly, the people. From the dentists to the nurses to the practice manager, your people make the place run. Those two...
When the BDA Benevolent Fund was founded in 1882 to offer support to dentists and their dependents – who through old age or illness could no longer financially support themselves – the welfare state did not exist. Four dentists started the Fund to assist their colleagues who had fallen on hard times, when the...
Part 4: Pre-retirement Exit strategy and business continuity / succession planningAs many dentists are also business owners, it’s important they plan how they are going to retire from the practice before they stop working. Much of the exit strategy and business continuity may already be written into the practice agreement. For example, the other...
Dental treatment in the UK is well explained, provides good value for money and delivers high levels of satisfaction among patients. That’s according to a report published today by the British Dental Association (BDA). The report follows the survey of 1,000 consumers to explore their experience of dentistry in the UK and found eight...