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.
From recent weeks
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.
A dentist took NHS reform to Parliament. What should the profession make of it?
An associate dentist's account of lobbying Westminster for NHS contract reform is a welcome sign of engagement — but on a day dominated by…
The CMA’s private dentistry study: five themes, and the date that actually matters
The Competition and Markets Authority is examining how the private dental market works for patients, from pricing transparency to redress. It is not a…
The GDC’s professionalism framework: consultation closed, one question unanswered
The regulator wants to replace its 2013 Standards for the Dental Team with four Principles of Professionalism, backed by expectations, statutory guidance and case…