DENTOLOGY - The Business of Dentistry

We celebrate a milestone: our 100th episode! To mark the occasion, our hosts Andy and Chris travelled to Portugal to meet with Miguel Stanley, Founder & Clinical Director at White Clinic. They covered so many interesting topics during the conversation that we decided to keep it all and split it over two podcast episodes. Topics covered across this episode and part 2 being released next week in...

It’s been a busy couple of years so this week we thought we’d look back over some of the previous episodes of Dentology. And with some 99 episodes to choose from, we can’t obviously recap all of them, so here’s a quick look back at some of our episode highlights. Thanks to all our guests so far. Enjoy!

This week’s guest is Hussein Shaffie, founder and principal dentist of The Sandford Implant and Cosmetic Centre and Bexleyheath Dental Practice. In this episode, Hussein chats about his dental career and what sparked his interest in dentistry. He reflects on life working as an associate and what prompted him to establish the two clinics.  He also talks about how he has built the two practices into...

This week in the Dentology Podcast Andy and Chris discuss the best ways to find a buyer for your dental practice. They discuss the various options available to you when selling your practice, the importance of ensuring confidentiality throughout the sales process, and the starting point for selling. They also discuss more about selling via the open market as opposed to only selling your practice t...

This week’s guest is Tanay Kulkarni, a final year undergraduate dental student at King’s College, London, past President of King’s College London Dental Society and Partner at Bryant Dental, a group of innovative DenTech companies. Despite only have just completed his finals, Tanay is already engrained within the dental community thanks to his amazing networking abilities and his forward-thinking...

Saima Butt, Managing Director of On Hold Communications Ltd, joins us on the Dentology Podcast this week. Saima talks to Chris and Andy about the early days building her career, her decision to enter the world of telecoms and why she decided to take the leap and set up her own marketing company, On Hold Communications. She chats about the initial years running her own business, the ups and downs f...

Shiraz Khan, award winning dentist, joins us again this week and talks to Chris and Andy about his passion for motorsport. In this episode, Shiraz tells us more about driving in the Porsche Club series from how he started through to where he is now.  He talks about the lessons he’s learnt over the years in dentistry that he’s successfully able to apply in motorsport and reflects on the transferabl...

This week in the Dentology Podcast Andy and Chris discuss EBITDA and Reconstituted Net Profit. They go back to basics and explain what both these terms mean, how they are different and discuss why they are important in the world of dentistry. To hear more from Chris and Andy, have a listen to this episode.   Topics: -      What is EBITDA? -      What does it mean? -      Why is it important for de...

Shaz Memon, founder of the Wells on Wheels charity, joins us again this week and gives us an update on the water wheel charity project that was started in June 2019. In this episode, Shaz tells us more about some of the communities whose lives have been forever changed for the better because of water wheels and the ongoing work/aims for the charity. He also shares a few details about his upcoming...

Derek Uittenbroek joins us this week as our guest. Derek is the founder and CEO of Ignite Growth , leading healthcare marketing agency that specialises in helping business attract patients for high value treatments. In this episode Derek chats about his childhood and looks back about his time studying at King’s College London.  He also reflects on his career journey from working in banking for a s...

Dr Richard Marques joins us this week as our guest. Richard is a well-known cosmetic dentist and director of ‘Dr Richard Clinics’, a private dental clinic in the Harley Street District of London W1. In this episode he talks about his early dental career and how he became the ‘go to dentist’ for celebrities.  He explains his reasons for specialising in cosmetic/restorative dental and facial aesthet...

Our guest this week is Dr Oliver Pierce, principal dentist and owner of Sutton Dental Practice in Hull. In this episode Oliver talks about his childhood and growing up in Hull. With both parents’ dentists, he grew up among the profession and qualified in 2012 from Charles University in Prague before returning home to complete his dental foundation and join the family practice. He reflects on the t...

Hear from well-known dental marketing expert Chris Baker in this week’s episode of Dentology. Chris is the owner of Corona Dental Marketing and has years of experience in marketing and PR in the dental sector. He has worked with many dentists on their plans to expand their practices through a variety of tools including branding, online strategy, social media marketing, PR, and advertising to name...

This week’s episode is something a bit different and sees Chris and Andy chat to Milad Shadrooh at our first-ever ‘Dentology Live’ event.  It was a fantastic evening, and we were delighted that so many guests were able to share the evening with us. In this episode, recorded live at a prestigious venue in London, Milad talks about his background and early years in dentistry, his journey through den...

This week in the Dentology Podcast Andy and Chris chat to Dr Shaadi Manouchehri, director of the London School of Facial Aesthetics, clinical lead of Smart Dental and Aesthetics clinic in the heart of London and ‘Social Media Queen’. Shaadi talks about her work and tells us how she successfully splits her time between clinical days working as an associate, developing her facial aesthetics business...

Welcome back to our guest this week, Bhavin Bhatt, founder of the Aligner Alchemy Academy. In this special episode Bhavin tells us about his ongoing support for Wells on Wheels , a Water Wheel Charity Project offering Water Wheels to ease the burden of women walking 1-2 miles a day carrying water on their heads and shares with us the amazing experience he and his family had when they spent their b...

This week in the Dentology Podcast Andy and Chris chat to Mehy Lo Presti, specialist restorative dentist based in London and co-founder of Sustainable Clinics, an organisation that helps clinics adapt to a more sustainable practice. In this episode Mehy talks about his early days in dentistry in Madrid and the reasons behind his move to the UK to continue with his studies and build on his dental c...

This week our guest on the Dentology Podcast is award-winning cosmetic dentist Dr Simon Chard. Simon is well known across the sector as an international speaker and lecturer. He co-owns the highly successful Rothley Lodge Dental Practice with this wife Dr Meghan Chard and is President of the BACD and co-founder of PARLA, the eco-friendly toothpaste brand. He was also voted Dentistry’s Person of th...

This week in the Dentology Podcast Andy and Chris chat to award-winning business consultant Jayne Sproson. In this episode Jayne talks about her dental career, reflects on the years she spent running her own practice alongside her husband and how that practice is now considered a blueprint for the many modern practices of today having been one of the first dental practices in the UK to incorporate...

This week on the podcast Andy and Chris chat to Dr Christian Coachman, pioneer of the Digital Smile Design methodology and founder of the Digital Smile Design company (DSD). Christian is a Brazilian sixth generation dentist. His family line has worked in dentistry for over 170 years, as verified by the Guinness World Records in 2019. In this episode Christian talks about his childhood, his decisio...

Andy and Chris chat to Dr Moonis Iqbal in this week’s episode of Dentology. Moonis has a special interest in orthodontic treatment and cosmetic dentistry and is now the proud owner of two dental practices (‘Smil’ in Kent and ‘Spa Dental Care’ in Essex). In this episode he talks about his early days in dentistry, from qualifying in India through to his decision to move to the UK some years later. H...

Andy and Chris chat to Doug Watt in this week’s episode of Dentology. Doug is a well-known voice across the sector on the subject of digital dentistry and in this episode, he chats to Chris and Andy about his early years in dentistry, his current work as a partner at Euston Place Dental practice, an amazing and fully digital 8-surgery private practice in Leamington Spa, and his involvement with th...

This week Andy and Chris are joined by social media and marketing expert Claire Frisby. Claire has worked in the dental sector for over 30 years and there’s nothing she doesn’t know about dental marketing and social media. Having started as a dental nurse in the 90s, Claire shares her story and explains how her career path took her into marketing and digital media. She talks about her current busi...

This week in the Dentology Podcast we talk to Jon Nicholas, dentist and lecturer with the Smile Dental Academy. In this episode Jon talks about his childhood and why he decided on a career in dentistry. He reflects on the years he spent at dental school before qualifying in 2013 and his reasons for moving towards aesthetic dentistry in more recent years. Jon also talks to Andy and Chris about his...

This week in the Dentology Podcast we talk to Dr Koray Feran, Clinical Director at LCIAD (The London Centre for Implant and Aesthetic Dentistry). In this episode we hear more about Dr Koray’s background, his early years in dentistry and the times he spent focusing on his own learning and education before taking the leap into practice ownership.  He talks about the preparation he undertook for...