06/02/2026
Retirement is strange. For 31 years my opinions belonged to my employer, my regulator, and my professional indemnity insurer. Last spring I handed back the keys, and my opinions became mine again.
So here is the first one, offered freely: "we'll keep an eye on it" is the most expensive sentence in British dentistry. Not for the dentist. For the woman in the chair.
More to come. I have three decades of things I wasn't allowed to say.
