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UK Dental Economy: Is it viable to buy a dental practice now?

18 Jun

In 2007, the sub-prime mortgages fiasco involving banks world-wide also impacted dentists, such as dentists in Nottingham, with personal and business mortgages. Those purchasing existing practices are affected by banks seeking greater assurances in unsecured lending for goodwill. Others establishing new private practices are also faced with banks seeking more assurance that the practice will succeed. Financial crisis’s also impacting the UK Dental Economy may present opportunities for new business with dental businesses for sale.

Dentists entering business deals are advised to research and understand the market issues and trends that cause responses to demand. As demand for dental practices has increased since 2006, the value of dental practices has also risen. Value of dental practices is determined too by the quality of dental skill, the patient base and potential business, and varied treatments available that may include Endodontic cosmeticdentistryguide.co.uk/articles/root-canal.html surgery to cosmetic dental and facial reconstructions through practitioner skill and state-of-the-art technology, such as CEREC.

Understanding the responsibilities and obligations when buying a practice is vital, and prospective dental practice buyers are becoming much more aware of this. Banks will look at past performance, business plans and forecasts as part of cautious lending policies. Consulting an expert before buying and getting quotes related to the practice’s operation is as important to assessing if the historical patients on the dental practice’s database really exist for viable business.

 
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Does love last longer than freckles?

16 Jun

Some years back, just  before going to an appointment with a Leeds letting agents, I went to see my Nan in Manchester about a burning question I had.

After dating my girlfriend for two years, I was considering whether or not I would ever propose marriage to her, and I needed my Nan’s advice before making decisions and moving into cosmeticdentistryguide.co.uk/teethwhitening.html. My doubt arose from a set of freckles on her left cheek that spelled the word “root”. And no matter how endearing freckles are, these “root” freckles became a continuous tattoo-type distraction to me.

My grandmother naturally asked if I had spoken to her about this. I said, “no, how could I?” and my Nan agreed with relief. She too had met Flora and like her very much. We discussed the genetic cause of freckles, and my Nan asked me how I would feel if I had a child with Flora that had freckles spelling a different word. That changed the perspective a bit I suppose. We then talked about the things of love that matter, and I agreed that I would miss the “root” if I never saw it again.

My Nan advised that I move into the student accommodation and give it some more time for thought. Fortunately, I did that and made the right choice. Flora and I have a red head little girl and her set of freckles appear to spell the word “hoot”.

 
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The lasers of tomorrow

02 Jun

Are the lasers of science fiction really what we want?  People seem to only be interested in things that involve causing death or destruction, they focus on these aspects and ignore other possibilities as not so interesting because nothing explodes.

Lasers are a good example of this because they are used in so much of our everyday lives and yet the bit that everyone finds interesting is their potential as weapons.  Lasers can be used for tattoo removal, letting someone rid their body of something they no longer want on it.  They are also used in entertainment, allowing movies and computer games to brighten up our day.

Lasers can be used in surgery, to help someone beat a deadly illness, or to help a couple with infertility problems to have a child.  They even get used to help people who need laser hair removal to let them feel better or laser eye surgery to let them see better.

More intriguing to people though, seems to be the idea of blowing things up, fighting monsters and aliens with massively powered beams of destruction.  Is this really what we want to teach our children?

I would rather they learned how great a technological advance something like the laser is.  How medical science has helped to improve and extend people’s lives using lasers.  How laser fingerprint detection lets us catch criminals and reduce crime and all the other ways in which technology can help our lives rather than just making things go ‘boom’.

 
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