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Live! At The Showcase

Live! At The Showcase

I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be “on stand” at The Showcase this year, working with dentist/nurse team Martyn Amsel and Sally Chadwick and introducing live demonstrations of how Martyn delivers quality dentistry from two chairs almost simultaneously. Open your mind and don’t automatically think “can’t be done, not for me”. We are privileged to … Read the Rest

The Dental Nurse Network

The Dental Nurse Network

Our mission is to balance out the supply and demand of dental nurses. We want to bring to you, hard working, enthusiastic, reliable, educated and well paid dental nurses. Temp nurses:
We charge you £16.00 and pay our nurses a minimum rate of £12 per hour.
In order to supply great … Read the Rest

NHS children and their parents

A client emails as follows this morning: We currently have a small NHS contract to see children only. There are many adults that bring their children to see us but who are not members of the practice. There are some who have left us to go elsewhere but still bring their kids because its free … Read the Rest

3D CBCT scans

3D CBCT scans

Hi Chris, We spoke briefly at the BDTA in Birmingham last year. I told you about a new project I was working regarding 3D dental x-ray / CBCT. To update we opened our first centre on June 21st this year, we aim to have another 9 around the UK within the 3 years. Our USP … Read the Rest

Chiral System Practice Management Suite

Chiral System Practice Management Suite

Its not often that we get to hear of a new practice management software package – so I was interested to receive the following email: Hi, I have been given your contact details by a friend who attended one of you seminars and who was impressed with your knowledge and energy. This is just to … Read the Rest

Employment law

I seem to be referring quite a bit of work to the folks at Bespoke HR at the moment – almost all of which is related to either:

  • handling redundancy or
  • dealing with team members whose behaviour warrants a disciplinary action

The fact is that we are all of us amateurs in the … Read the Rest

Advertising can be fun

Advertising can be fun

My thanks to Simon Reilly for the following photograph: Clearly it’s not just me that advocates a small car emblazoned with your practice decal, either parked significantly or wandering around town. But the Fiat 500 Convertible has to be the car of choice surely?

Chris Barrow’s week of Twitters

  • I just unlocked the "Local" badge on @foursquare! http://4sq.com/dCcCWP #
  • An afternoon stop for a late lunch and chats in the sunshine (@ The Shed) http://4sq.com/cXe2FL #
  • I uploaded a YouTube video — Camborne Town Band in Falmouth http://youtu.be/x0K0VDx6z4A?a #
  • A friend asks "do you know any good B&B's in Edinburgh?" – any … Read the Rest

Wired, iPad and the future of treatment planning

A vision here of:

  • The future of Wired magazine
  • The future of print media
  • how you will present your business and your recommendations to clients

in 5 years from now – or maybe even less? I’m currently exploring “GURU” – the new iPad app from Software Of Excellence, and realising that we may … Read the Rest

responding to email enquiries

The email below was sent via your website’s online form. It was submitted by
newpatient@ourhouse.co.uk
————————————————————————— Name: sarah smith Address: our town Telephone: 01234 5678910 Day: Monday Time: Morning Current_Patient: No How_Found: internet search Message: my partner and I would like teeth whitening by using the zoom, could you quote us a price … Read the Rest