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Dental surgery cabinetry: a practical design guide
Cabinetry is the part of your surgery you and your team will touch more than anything else. Every drawer opened, every tray pulled, every glove taken from a dispenser, hundreds of times a day, every day the practice is open. Despite that, dental surgery cabinetry is often one of the last decisions made in a…
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How to Choose the Right Dental Camera for Your Practice Installation
Dental cameras are designed to deliver clear imagery and patient comfort, but not every model does the same job. While many advanced intraoral cameras can be used as an accurate diagnostic tool, others are built simply to aid communication between dentist and patient. Knowing how to choose the right dental camera starts with deciding which…
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Why Ergonomic Dental Seating Is Essential for Modern Practice
You’re in contact with your stool more than any other piece of equipment in the surgery. More than the handpiece, more than the chair, more than the scanner. For most of every appointment it’s the thing holding your body in position while you concentrate on something a few millimetres across. And yet it tends to…
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How Will the UDA Reforms Affect Your Practice?
After years of complaints that the NHS dental contract in England rewards volume over need, the system is finally shifting. The UDA reforms, part of NHS England’s wider quality and payment reforms, began rolling out from April 2026 and are being phased in across the 2026/27 year. If you hold an NHS or mixed contract,…
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What No One Tells You About Opening a Squat Dental Practice
There’s no shortage of advice on opening a squat practice. Write a business plan, find the right location, register with the CQC, line up your funding – you know the checklist. The trouble is that most of it stops at the surface level ideas, and skips the part where reality turns up. We design, build…
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Dental Handpiece Buying Guide
The handpiece is the piece of kit you’ll hold for hours, rely on across most procedures, and replace more often than almost anything else in your surgery. Get the choice right and it disappears into the background. Get it wrong and it shows up in wrist fatigue, longer procedures, and cancelled appointments. This dental handpiece…
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Dental Clinic Entrance and Reception Design
The entrance and reception are the parts of your practice every patient experiences, no matter why they’re visiting. A well-designed arrival journey calms nervous patients down before they reach the chair; a poorly designed one quietly winds them up. These spaces also tend to get the least attention at the design stage – whether you’re…
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Essential dental equipment needed when installing a practice
When installing a dental practice, the equipment you choose shapes far more than the look of the surgery. It affects how your team works, how smoothly patients move through the space, how reliable your day-to-day setup feels, and how easily the practice can grow in the future. Despite that, choosing essential dental equipment is often…
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Dental decontamination room design
Your decontamination room is arguably the most critical space in your practice after the surgery itself. It is where contaminated instruments are cleaned, disinfected and sterilised before being returned for safe reuse. If this room does not work properly, nothing else in the practice works properly either. Despite this, decontamination room design is often treated…
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The Complete Guide to Building a Dental Surgery from Scratch
Starting a dental surgery from scratch – often referred to in the industry as a “squat” practice – is arguably one of the most challenging projects you will undertake in your professional career. It is also likely to be the most rewarding. There is a significant difference between buying an existing practice and building one…