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• Could you have a pension gap? How to stay on track for retirement
  Wesleyan Financial Services explains how dentists can identify a pension gap, assess their retirement income needs and plan ahead for the retirement they want. For dentists, planning for retirement can be more complicated than simply deciding when to hang up the loupes. You may have benefits in the NHS Pension Scheme (NHSPS), one or more…
• A smarter approach to minimally invasive restorative dentistry: understanding injection moulding for confident restorative outcomes
  Minimally invasive restorative treatments are desired by many clinicians, and can give patients an excellent long-term outcome whilst preserving as much of the natural tooth structure as possible. Additive injection moulding is one such approach, and can be effective when the clinical circumstances require minimal or no tissue removal. Where the need for a restoration…
• Are these 10 TikTok dental hacks harming your patients?
  The viral dental hacks dominating TikTok may look harmless, but dentist Andrey Ilyabayev warns that they could lead to permanent damage. He shares 10 trends that dental professionals should be warning patients against. From wrapping rubber bands around teeth to close gaps to filing down enamel with a nail file, TikTok’s dental ‘hacks’ have racked up…
• The real problem with NHS dentistry… and why it’s not money
  Neel Kothari explains why administrative burnout and a lack of clinical support, not funding, are the real reasons dentists are fleeing the NHS. Undoubtedly years of under inflationary pay rises have made NHS funding a problem. But what is often overlooked is how difficult the day-to-day experience of being an NHS dentist has become and…
• Visualisation: achieving your practice ownership dreams
  Rana Al-Falaki shares how one new practice owner used visualisation to power through overwhelm and build a practice on purpose. Buying your first practice is meant to feel like arrival. You have finally made it. The keys are yours, the chair is yours, and so, in theory, is the direction of travel. For Dr JS,…