8 Top Tips to Make Your Apprenticeship Application Stand Out

With over 500 apprentices and trainees employed, Portman Dentex emphasises the critical role apprentices play in businesses. To provide you with expert advice, we’ve collaborated with our recruitment team to compile tips on making your apprenticeship application stand out from the crowd. 1. Craft a Well-Written CV Your CV is a key component of your … Read more

A Dental Practice Refit: The Gallery Dental Centre of Excellence

When The Gallery Dental Centre of Excellence embarked on a refurbishment, it was immediately approached as a collaborative process. The team canvassed feedback from existing patients, and were invited to share ideas themselves, and found that patterns quickly emerged of what priorities for change should be. While many patients were quick to praise the feel … Read more

Five things to think about before selling your dental practice

There could be a number of reasons why you might be considering selling your dental practice: perhaps you’re nearing retirement and thinking about how best to ensure the continuity of your business? Or maybe you’ve become tired of certain elements of running a practice, which seem far removed from the reason you entered the profession … Read more

Designing for Diversity: Making Social Media Accessible For All

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What is accessibility? Accessibility on social media refers to the practice of designing and presenting content in a way that ensures individuals with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with it effectively. It involves making social media platforms and the content shared on them accessible to a diverse range of users, including those with … Read more

11 Tips for a Successful Website

Knowing where to start and what to look out for in your dental practice website can be tricky. After all, web development is a whole profession in itself! That’s why we’ve crafted this user-friendly checklist to make website optimisation a breeze. With these 11 essential checks, keeping your dental website in top-notch condition has never … Read more

How Professional Photography Can Benefit Your Practice

Pear Tree Practice Photography

Investing in professional photography for your dental practice can reap many benefits, from creating a website that builds trust with patients to social media posts with higher engagement. Here, Dan from Future Proof Photography & Video, who specialises in practice photography, helps us better understand how the quality of your practice imagery can have an … Read more

On our best behaviour – avoiding patient complaints.

Recently, we spoke with Densura, expert dental indemnity insurers, and sponsors of our ‘Ask the Specialists’ event to get some tips and useful information on avoiding patient complaints, as the one thing that we can all agree on is that dentistry is very difficult. Many patients provide considerable challenges. Not only are there all the … Read more

The Magic of Professional Headshots for Dentists

Ever wondered how a simple photo could make a big difference in your dental career? Well, today we’re diving into the world of professional headshots for dentists. These aren’t your average selfies – we’re talking about the kind of snapshots that can work wonders for your reputation, charm your potential patients, and make your dental … Read more

The Future of Orthodontics is Clear

Claire Nightingale Queens Gate Orthodontics

Disclaimer The mentions of specific brands in this article are the opinion of Claire Nightingale and do not reflect the opinions of Dentex as a company.  For award-winning Orthodontist Claire Nightingale, the future is clear. We sat down with Claire to hear her opinion on why she’s pivoted her practice to treat predominantly with Invisalign … Read more

Advance Dental Clinic Celebrates its 20 Year Milestone

Advance Dental Clinic Chemlsford

As Advance Dental Clinic in Chelmsford celebrates 20 years in business, we sit down with principle Dr Andrew Moore to learn how the practice has evolved in the last two decades. Congratulations on reaching this milestone! What have been the key things you’d attribute to the practice’s success? The team is the overriding factor and … Read more