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Join Laura Horton and Leanna Best for a light-hearted catch-up where dentistry talk meets real-life banter. No guests, no scripts — just honest conversations, laughs, and a few surprises. Tune in for our popular features, such as Banned Words and Confessions, where dental professionals share their funniest, most shocking, and downright gross stories for us to read aloud. Fresh, fun, and a little bit cheeky — welcome to the new Horton Hangout podcast 2.0 for the dental team and industry.
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Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Nadim is a dedicated and enthusiastic dental surgeon with a proven track record in delivering the highest standards of care. Skilled in the use of sedation and hypnotherapy and aesthetic and implant orientated treatments.
Roles: Practice owner, manager and dentist
Location: Preston, Lancashire
Key facts:
Dad to twins boy and girl, opened a squat private practice in sept 2008 and the twins were born November 2008.
Read an estimated 500-600 books in the last 8 years on personal development, psychology, business and marketing.
Nadim qualified from Liverpool University in 2001, completed a diploma in Implant dentistry and has a Masters in Implantology.
Nadim has invested over £100,000 in his post grad training and over £30,000 on personal development and training (non dental related).
Is a trained NLP practitioner with Paul Mckenna training.
Learned to Code and programme in spare time and built first practice website in 2001 before many dental practices were online.
He is working hard with the local community promoting oral health.
Outside dentistry, he enjoys spending time with his family, computing/internet, keeping fit and personal development.
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
In our 4th edition of the Horton Hangout Guest we are pleased to hangout with Dr Andy Denny.
Roles: Practice owner with Dentist wife Becky who is co-owner and business manager / Dentist
Location: Somerset, England
Key facts about Dr Denny:
- Served as a Royal Navy Dental Officer for 7 years
- Set up their private practice from nothing but a ‘squat’ 15 years ago and have grown it into a regionally renown centre for multi-disciplinary cosmetic and implant dentistry
- Andy has been an examiner for the Faculty of General Dental Practitioners at the Royal College of Surgeons in London
- Has spoken nationally and internationally on orthodontics, implants, composites, multi-disciplinary dentistry and treatment planning
- Has won 3 Aesthetic dentistry awards for ‘Full Mouth Restorative Case’ and ‘Orthodontic Case – Fixed Braces (Adult)’ as well as being highly commended as Best Aesthetic practice
- Andy works 3 1/2 days a week clinically with other time spent on the business or teaching/mentoring. He avoids dentistry in the evenings and weekends and has always spent as much time as he can supporting his children with their sports/clubs/hobbies.
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Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Key facts about Neil and Fiona
- Neil’s dental career began as a technician
- Neil is an examiner for the BACD accreditation examinations, he is accredited himself, one of the first 8 dentists to achieve this.
- He has an MSC in Implantology and has won multiple awards for his clinical dentistry.
- Fiona is a highly intelligent lady, she comes from a nursing background has been instrumental in creating the brand to support her husband's dentistry and has grown the practice from two to six surgeries and developed team leaders in the business to support different areas.
This podcast is full of their top tips to help you in career, team development and business development.
Tuesday Feb 19, 2019
Tuesday Feb 19, 2019
In our second edition of Horton Hangout Guest we are pleased to hangout with Dr Sarah Jane Dunne. Sarah Jane answers some amazing questions and really displays her passion for dentistry in this podcast.
Roles: Practice owner with dentist husband Ray / business manager / Dentist
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Key facts about Dr Dunne:
- She celebrates surviving 20 years in the dental sector
- Dr Dunne has transitioned from a clinical role to a non-clinical role mid-career
- She believes in embracing the power of systems in dental practice to reduce stress, increase productivity and happiness for the whole team, ensuring your practice can run smoothly whether you are there or not.
- Dr Dunne believes in building a dental practice that is a truly profitable business, not just a job where you work for a crazy boss… yourself!
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Roles: Practice owner with Dentist husband Rhodi / business manager / Practice Manager / dental business consultant and trainer
Location: Devon, England
Key facts about Emma John:
- Emma was the first person to win two Practice Manager of the Year awards from two completely different dental industry bodies within 12 months of each other!
- Emma has flown ‘back seat’ in a Red Arrows Hawk Aircraft and was at the time the youngest ever dental practice manager in the Royal Air Force, running a dental practice at a main strike command flying base.
- Alongside her husband they purchased a dental practice going against all advice from their Accountants who advised them it was failing miserably.
- Not only did they turn it around but they also turned it a stunning, profit making, multi award winning practice that is noted as a flagship for many in the industry.
- Emma is a mum of four very successful children and is incredibly happily married, she survived the ups and downs of no work/life balance whatsoever in the early days and still believes she has one of the best jobs in the world.