Features

Dark mornings and the return to work in the new year can take its toll on our health and wellbeing. Claire O’Farrell offers her top tips on fighting the January blues Winter – and January especially – can be a challenge for our mental health and wellbeing for many reasons. Dark, long, wintery days can … Continued

Zac Fine speaks to Cormac Shields about growing Shields Dental and Implant Clinic’s revenue from €800k to €5m in less than five years Cormac Shields and his twin brother Conor took their practice from €800k to more than €3m in four years. Now, having established scalable business processes, they are acquiring further practices beyond Shields Dental … Continued

In the fourth and final article on the GDPR and dentistry, Kevin Cahill offers five practice computing tips to help avoid breaches of data Quite on purpose, the GDPR is not prescriptive about the IT measures an organisation must take in order to be compliant. It would be unreasonable to expect smaller organisations and global … Continued

In the third of a series of four articles on the GDPR and dentistry, Kevin Cahill takes a look at the data controller and processor in practice, and what this means for associates The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) holds an enterprise responsible for meeting its data protection obligations and protecting personal data. In GDPR … Continued

In the second part of a series on the General Data Protection Regulation and dentistry, Sinead O’Hanrahan explores its impact on children’s data The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 contain many provisions that relate to processing children’s data, but do they require dentists to treat children’s personal data any … Continued

Perio Master Clinic 2020 will be coming to Dublin next March. Ahead of the event, organiser Declan Corcoran shares some of the opportunities on offer to attendees The European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) will be bringing its Perio Master Clinic 2020 to Dublin in March next year, and will provide clinicians with an exciting opportunity … Continued

In this first of a series of four articles, Kevin Cahill explains how dental professionals can establish a pragmatic balance in relation to General Data Protection Regulation The long-awaited General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came in on 25 May last year like a lion, and we all expected the data protection police to kick down … Continued