Category Archives: Ian’s thoughts

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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Don’t take it for granted

Earlier this week, Neema our lively 6 yr old was in a children’s ward in Blackpool Victoria Hospital with a nasty throat infection and inflamed tonsil tissue. It wasn’t too serious and the wonderful care of the nurses & doctors … Continue reading

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At the next roundabout, take the 2nd exit

Coming back yesterday in the car from visiting cousins over the weekend, I thought the sat-nav was having a moment of overload! For each instruction from ‘the lady of the little black box’ came another female voice immediately repeating the exact same line…word for … Continue reading

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This little light…..is one day gonna burn!!!

As mentioned in Mark’s blog post last week, we all had the privilege of meeting together with the clinical lead team. With so much enthusiasm, commitment and fun in the room it was not difficult to have a great day. Thank you to each … Continue reading

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