Reading and Windsor Section: The 9 revolutions in the modern dental practice

What to expect

This lecture will explore the nine revolutions reshaping the modern dental practice. Chris Barrow offers an overview of how emerging technologies from intra-oral scanners to AI-assisted consultations are changing clinical workflows, team roles and patient communication. Attendees will reflect on the implications of adopting innovation sustainably in a traditional practice environment.

Timings

18:30 Registration, networking and hot food 

19:15 Lecture - Chris Barrow

21:00 Ends

Learning objectives

• Identify each of the nine technological and systemic revolutions in modern dentistry
• Evaluate the benefits and challenges of integrating these into an existing dental business model
• Reflect on how to align digital transformation with high-quality patient care
• Consider how to prepare teams and patients for the changes
• Develop an action plan to implement strategies in their own practice.

Development outcomes

A, B, C, D

Meet the speaker

Chris has operated his own businesses for 32 years and has been a trainer, consultant, coach and mentor to the UK dental profession for 23 years. Chris combines long experience and deep expertise with the originality and independence needed to resolve the thorniest problems.

Chris spent the first 17 years of his working life in the corporate sector and followed this with 30+ years of business ownership. The different dynamics of both worlds have given him the valuable gift of knowing how to operate – and communicate – in both.

In 1987 Chris was active in the establishment of the Institute for Financial Planning, an organisation representing the first fee-based Financial Planners in the UK; Chris specialised in working with small businesses. In 1993 Chris decided to make the transition to business coaching and became one of the first UK students at Coach University, from where he graduated as a certified coach. Recognising the opportunity in the dental profession, 1997 saw the creation of The Dental Business School (DBS) and the development of a 12-month business coaching programme for dental practice owners and their teams, delivered to over 1000 UK dental practices in the following 10 years.

In 2014 Chris appeared as one of the first castaways on the TV survival show “The Island with Bear Grylls”, abandoned with 12 others on a Pacific desert island and left to fend for themselves for a month.

His own day to day work as Coach Barrow with The Extreme Business programmes is still focused on strategic coaching with the owners of dental practices and micro-corporates.