A personal plea for help from Colin

In September 2011 as I sat miserable with an injured ankle that ruled me out of the two final triathlon races of my season, including the biggest race I would ever have done, I received a phone call…… Earlier in … Continue reading →

A fantastic evening on aesthetic implant dentistry in Nottingham

On July 5th in Nottingham the ITI will launch it Nottingham Study Club with it’s first evening and an amazing lecture by Shakeel Shadad from Kings in London. Shakeel is internationally renowned in the provision of aesthetic implant cases and … Continue reading →

12 Albums for 2012…Number 5

12 Films for 2012…Number 3

12 Books for 2012…Number 4

The joys of working with DCP’s

In my formative years as a dentist in practice I worked for almost 11 years for the same principles in a group of 2 practices. We had no opportunity in those practices to work with DCP’s (obviously apart from dental … Continue reading →

How to learn to do a Sinus Lift (if you haven’t done one before)

Five years ago, as my implant practice was developing really well, I realised that I was sending a considerable amount of patients away due to lack of height in the posterior maxilla or sending them out to a maxillofacial surgeon … Continue reading →

12 Albums for 2012…3 and 4

Bon Iver VS Benjamin Francis Leftwich In my quest this year to listen to some music that I have not listened to before I downloaded both these albums after hearing snippets on Radio 1 of both artists.

12 Books for 2012…Book 3

Book – K-Pax Author – Gene Brewer My wife has a cousin called Beth who is a science graduate from the University of Sheffield and she is now aged 22 or 23.

An ADI Master Class

A couple of weeks ago I travelled to London with my friend and colleague, Neil Posyer, to listen to a master class provided by American clinician Dr Michael Pikos.

A Lesson from JFK…

I like to read quotes and inspirational quotes from other people. I am not absolutely sure why quotes are inspiring but I think its because they are generally an amazing summary of a fundamental philosophical point that just reminds us … Continue reading →

The Karen Green Foundation – an update

On a Sunday evening at the end of February 2012 in a pub in Nottingham, The Karen Green Foundation was officially launched.

How to change your practicing life.

In 2007 I approached my then boss and practice principle Andrew Keetley and told him I wanted us to purchase a cone beam CT scanner for the practice.

Extending the peer review process.

I attended my first peer review meeting as a general practitioner in 1997.

Clinicians who inspired me… Part 3

After I left my junior house jobs at Glasgow dental hospital I travelled south to Nottingham to become a senior house officer in maxillofacial surgery.

Clinicians who inspired me… Part 2

When I was a 4th year dental student, I went on my elective to Dallas with 3 of my friends. There wasn’t much studying done!!

Clinicians who inspired me… Part 1

At a recent ITI Course at the ITI Centre in Crawley, we were asked to consider and write down some notes about people who have inspired us in our careers. The point of this exercise (this was a mentor training … Continue reading →

Bridge 2 Aid Unity Partnership

Many years ago, while I was working at Kirk Hallam Dental Practice in Ilkeston providing oral surgery, a dentist and specialist in oral surgery named Karen Patterson came to visit me there.

The problem is…

“The problem is not that we aim too high, it is that we aim too low and hit”      anonymous

Testimonial from Graham Wilkinson of the Foundation in Implant Dentistry Course provided by the ITI in Wakefield

Here is a recent testimonial we received from one of the delegates on the Foundation in Implant Dentistry Course provided by the ITI in Wakefield…

12 Books for 2012…Book 2

Title: Steve Jobs Biography Author: Walter Isaacson

Help us raise £1000

12 Films for 2012…Number 2

Starwars Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace 3D  

12 Books for 2012… Number 1

12 Albums for 2012…Number 2

The Karen Green Foundation

As you may be aware, if you have read these posts before, I like to ride bikes.

12 films for 2012… Number 1

Haywire

The ITI AGM London 2012

If you read these blog posts regularly then you will realise that I am heavily involved with the ITI UK and Ireland Section.

Here we go again.

I have an amazing sense of ‘Deja Vu’ at the moment.

A trip to a Michelin Star Restaurant

At the turn of the year my wife and I were lucky enough to go to a local Michelin star restaurant (it infact has 2 stars – we didn’t know that at the time)

Standing out from the crowd

It pays to be different. I am sure it pays to be different.

Looking on the bright side – the view of the new graduate.

I read an interesting blog post today by Chris Barrow on private VT and it reminded me of the time I spent as a VT trainer.

Placing implants where patients can see the results.

Teaching practitioners how to place implants appropriately and well is complicated.

The ITI Study Club.

In 2010 the ITI (International Team for Implantology) worldwide launched the concept of the ITI study club.

We DO have the right equipment.

I am essentially a dentist or oral surgeon who receives referrals for the treatment of patients.

How to appoint a new hygienist.

Recently, as the practice has been expanding quickly, we realised that we needed to appoint further hygienist support.

Dates for your diary…

Courses coming up which may be of interest to dentists who are involved or wish to be involved in implant dentistry as follows:

Introducing dental implants into general practice

I have been lecturing and travelling around the country for educational events for over a decade and without a shadow of a doubt, the question that I have been asked the most is “which course should I do to get … Continue reading →

A new procedure in Oral Surgery?

Sometimes it’s difficult to write lectures around oral surgery because there are times when little seems to change and you seem to be teaching ‘the same old stuff’

The Apicectomy as a benchmark.

When I was starting out in my surgical training I was a senior house officer at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham with an amazing guy called Iain McVicar who I still consider a friend to this day.

New Years Resolutions…Part 4

So….the last 3 blog posts give you some indication of the road map that I am writing with my team and all my sights for 2012.

New Year’s Resolutions…Part 3

2012 looks to be an amazingly exciting year for me on the professional front with massive opportunities lying in wait.

New Year’s Resolutions…Part 2

I like to keep my New Year’s resolutions divided into personal, family and professional. For the moment I’ll perhaps keep the family ones to myself but I would like to share my personal and professional goals for 2012.

New Year’s Resolutions…Part 1

I am the type of guy who, at this time of year, likes to look back on the year that has passed and look towards the next year to see how I can improve things and make things better, both … Continue reading →

Asking patient’s what they want.

We recently had some building work carried out at our house which involved builders, plumbers, electricians etc. being on site for a considerable amount of time.We have a fire in our living room which has never been quite right and … Continue reading →

Ride the wave of change.

In 1999 I was lucky enough to be Chairman of the Nottingham Local Dental Committee. During my 2 years as Chairman, there was much discussion about the possible future onset of “local commissioning”.

The future of CDP in dentistry, look to the past.

You may have seen from my social media outlets that I was at the ITI UK and Ireland Congress in Liverpool last week. The benefits of attending these national and international meetings are massive to anybody in clinical dentistry and … Continue reading →

Who is doing who a favour?

Everywhere I look now people seem to be banging  on about customer service in dentistry. It seems that we have come to this really late and only now realise that patients actually appreciate being looked after in a polite and genuine way.

The benefits of large industry meetings.

Today I will be travelling to the ITI Congress in Liverpool, which begins tomorrow 1st December, and runs until Saturday 3rd December.