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The price of compassion

I wrote this blog last week after an amazing experience, but due to technical difficulties, it’s a week late going up on the blog… Apologies for the delay! Last Saturday was an amazing day in so many ways! Over 36 … Continue reading

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Pain that takes your life away

This is the simple story of a patient who, this week, has gone through an awful experience of dental pain – not just a bit of dental pain but a few days that saw him unable to work, unable to … Continue reading

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Student Electives and developing nations

Over the past couple of weeks I have seen articles in the dental press about dental students who have taken their elective study period in a developing nation. Their passion for getting involved, and their desire to serve developing nations with … Continue reading

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Locums at HDC

Meet Yordan! I had the privilege of meeting Yordan last weekend in a Leeds city centre coffee shop. The reason being he is about to travel to Mwanza to assist the team at Hope Dental Centre as a Locum Dentist. … Continue reading

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Student Electives with B2A

A number of weeks ago I had the privilege of attending our very first Student Elective Orientation Day. Together with Kathy Wilson from the University of Newcastle dental school and Anna Hirst of our partners in this programme, Henry Schein … Continue reading

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A visit of inspiration

A couple of weeks ago Andie and I had the opportunity of visiting the Christian Dental Fellowship (CDF) Conference. It was great to be able to meet so many friends and colleagues again that have encouraged us and supported the … Continue reading

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A dinner with friends

Last Thursday I had the privilege of attending the Henry’s Club dinner in London. It was a great opportunity to meet up with colleagues and friends from the dental profession that I haven’t seen since  we moved back to the … Continue reading

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Every step you take

Today another team of amazing Dentists & Nurses will take the journey to be with the team in Mwanza for another DVP, training Tanzanian Clinical Officers in emergency dentistry and bringing pain relief to thousands of people like you and … Continue reading

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Are you on cruise control?

On the road with the family yesterday we had the joy of driving through a 3000 mile stretch of average speed cameras for road works where, yes you guessed it, there was millions of cones but no road works! Wanting … Continue reading

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