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  • Lab-grown ‘replacement teeth’ successfully implanted into jaws
    Scientists have successfully grown human-like replacement teeth in a lab setting and implanted them into the mouths of miniature pigs. Human and porcine tooth cells were combined and grown into tooth-like structures inside samples of pig tooth. This approach was taken because pigs grow many sets of teeth throughout their lifetime. Once mostly grown, the…
  • Will 2025 be an economic disaster for the dental sector?
    As financial pressures grow, Neel Kothari warns that neither NHS nor private dentistry is immune to rising costs and reduced patient spending. For as long as I can remember, the perception of dentistry has always been one of wealth and prosperity. For many years, we’ve been fortunate to see good demand for NHS and private…
  • The benefits of a multiple practice NHS to private conversion
    Donna Hall speaks to Jane Mead about her experience of converting multiple NHS practices to private practice with Practice Plan. In one of Practice Plan’s most recent podcasts, regional support manager Donna Hall is joined by Jane Mead, finance director at Elegant Smiles. Jane shares her journey of transitioning multiple NHS practices to a single…
  • Five ways to mitigate rising costs as a dental practice owner
    With 20 years’ experience within the healthcare acquisitions sector, Alison Bates from Henry Schein Dental Practice Sales shares her thoughts on the rising costs facing dental practice owners. With the planned increase to national living wage and employers’ national insurance coming in the new financial year, we’re finding that many principal dentists are concerned about…
  • A week in the life of a dental academic and BADT chair
    Joanne Bowles shares a week in her life as a dental academic and secretary and chair elect for the British Association of Dental Therapists (BADT). As a full-time dental therapist, academic and co-director for undergraduate programmes at the University of Liverpool School of Dentistry, a week can be very full and extremely varied – much…
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