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24 Apr 2026 • Blog, Marketing

Seasonal trends: How to prepare for increases in demand

Like most businesses, dentistry experiences seasonal trends, times in the year when certain treatments attract more interest than others. Here, Medenta Business Development Manager, Shelley Clegg, explains how understanding the ways patient behaviour changes throughout…

10 Dec 2025 • Blog, HR

Induction programmes – how to give your new staff the best start in their new job

Medenta Business Development Manager, Lesley Turner, suggests ways to help new employees get off to the best start. Many people are nervous during their first days in a new job. There are so many things…

7 Nov 2025 • Blog, Finance

Are you confidently and compliantly offering patient finance for your current FCA status?

Being able to offer patient finance can be a game-changer for dental practices looking to make treatments more accessible and improve patient conversion. However, integrating finance into your patient journey can be more complicated than…

9 Jun 2025 • Blog, Communication

Mastering Difficult Conversations – develop your team’s superpowers

Highly experienced practice manager and dental practice management consultant, Lisa Bainham, explores how to help team members cope with the inevitable challenging conversations team members will face. In every dental practice, being called on to…

11 Mar 2025 • Blog, Finance

Coping with the Labour budget – how practices are responding

How did the measures announced in the Labour government’s first budget affect dental practices? Practice Plan Group Director, Nigel Jones, spoke to Partner and Head of Dental at accountants UNW, Mike Blenkharn, to get his…

9 Sep 2024 • Blog, Managing patient finance in practice

Unwrapping the Financial Conduct Authority’s approval firms and what this means for Dental Practices

As part of the Government’s post-Brexit plans to improve the UK’s financial regulatory regime, in February this year the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a new reform of the financial promotion regime. This is also…

19 Feb 2024 • Blog, Customer Service

Nurturing Patient Enquiries for Success

In this guest blog, Dental Business Consultant, Lucie Simic, stresses the importance of keeping in touch with patients while they consider whether to take up treatment plans. In the fast-paced world of dental practices, the…

20 Nov 2023 • Blog, Finance

Advice on buying a dental practice

Christie & Co recently published its annual Dental Market Review which showed there is still a strong appetite for practice ownership. Buying a practice can be a long and involved process with the average time…

13 Oct 2023 • Blog, Marketing

You’re not selling, you’re solving problems

Dental Business Coach, Ashley Latter, explains how selling, if done ethically, need not be a dirty word. Nobody likes to be on the other end of a hard sell. A salesperson who uses hard selling…

22 Sep 2023 • Blog, Finance

Consumer duty – is it any of your business?

Think the new Consumer Duty is none of your concern? If you offer patient finance in your practice then Head of Medenta, Richard Scarborough, encourages you to think again. You may have heard about the…

18 Aug 2023 • Blog, Marketing

How to sell the benefits of treatment in the UK rather than Turkey

As the phenomenon of ‘Turkey teeth’ shows no sign of losing its popularity, Dental Business Coach, Ashley Latter, offers some advice on how to share the benefits with patients of staying local for their treatment.…

9 Jun 2023 • Blog, Finance

Keeping your cash flow smooth with patient finance

Since he took on ownership of Courtyard Dental practice in 2006, Dentist, Marcos White, has worked to create a fully private high-end practice with a welcoming environment. Specialising in cosmetic dentistry, he and his team…