Dental Practice Marketing: The UK Owner’s Guide
The part of running a practice where the rules are strictest and the advice loosest. What actually works, and what the four rulebooks forbid.
From recent weeks
Skill Mix in Dental Practice: Who Can Do What, and Who Carries the Risk
A regulatory question before it is a business one: who can treat without a dentist present, and where the liability lands when they do.
Dentist Starting Salary UK: The One Year It Is Actually a Salary
Exactly one year in a UK dentist’s career carries a published national salary: the foundation year, at £42,408. After that, the word stops applying.
Associate Dentist Salary: Why It Is Not a Salary at All
An associate is self-employed — billing for the work, paying you to use the practice. What you negotiate is a split, not a wage.
Locum dental nurse rates: what cover really costs, and who carries the risk
The only people publishing locum rates are the agencies selling the shift. What is published is the machinery underneath, and who carries the risk.
Orthodontic Therapist Salary: What the Published Data Actually Shows
Nobody publishes private-practice pay for an orthodontic therapist. What is publishable is more useful anyway — one NHS band, and a register up 57%.
Dental technician salary: what you have to pay, and why it is getting harder
No one reliably publishes what a commercial lab pays a technician. What actually sets the number is a register that shrinks every year.
Buying a Dental Practice: The Due Diligence Checklist
Deals rarely die over missing documents. They die over what does not transfer with the practice: registration, the NHS contract, the associates, the lease.
Opening a Squat Dental Practice: What It Really Involves
The only way to buy a dental business with no goodwill attached — and with no patients, no income and a fit-out to fund.
Dental Practice Valuation: How It Actually Works
“What multiple of turnover do practices sell for?” has an answer, it is published quarterly, and it is close to useless for valuing yours.