Inclusion

Inclusion in Dentistry There is much talk about gender equality, yet disappointingly women dentists continue to be undervalued across our profession and under-represented in leadership positions. Women are at the forefront of solving these problems and I am delighted to join hands with a trailblazing group of women to welcome female colleagues into this safe space at the Women Dentists Network (WDN) from which we can pursue the inclusion agenda by collectively supporting each

I think it’s fair to say that my dental career has been a little different, I don’t come from a professional family, I didn’t want to be a dentist from a young age, I was not a high flier at school and I don’t have ‘A’ Levels. School did not inspire me and I didn’t get the bug for learning until after I left school and began day release and night school. My decision to enter dentistry was more happenstance and the result of a number of events in my life that meant I had to

I decided not only to become a dentist, but that I would be an orthodontist, at the tender age of 12, after being inspired by great care provided by my new dentist and a local orthodontist. After that, life choices were easy, as the O level and A level subjects I needed to take were determined and all I had to do was choose a dental school (and get an offer!). There have been plentiful challenges and a degree of intermittent misery, but, I’ve stuck doggedlyto my intended path

When I reflect on where I was this time last year, I am transported back to the feeling of elation at finishing my written finals as a fifth year, the feeling of hope of my future as a newly qualified dentist, the excitement at focusing on clinical dentistry in preparation for my dental foundation training (DFT) year. I look back fondly at this time, as I am sure many people do, living in ignorant bliss at the silent enemy that was about to take a deadly grip on not only this

By Linda Greenwall At the beginning of the new year 2021- we consider all that has happened in the past year during the Covid pandemic. A year ago, we would never have dreamed of what was in stall for us during this last year and now that we have effectively entered a third lock down in the UK- how has this impacted on dentistry? We have had to rapidly change and adapt to so many new protocols, standard operating procedures and adapt to new ways of working and risk management