Interview By Tim Power


Advancing


dental research


Professor David Wray is one of Scotland’s true heavyweight research scientists, respected the world over. He talks to Scottish Dental magazine about his remarkable career


I


n a career spanning more than 40 years, Professor David Wray has faced more than his fair share of medical and scientific challenges.


Indeed, so successful has he been


at finding clinical solutions to the problems faced by his profession, the British Dental Association (BDA) has recently awarded him the John Tomes Medal in recognition of his remarkable contribution to medical science. However, when Scottish Dental magazine met the Professor of Oral Medicine at Glasgow Dental School to discuss his award, he was mulling over what he sees as one of the great


moral dilemmas facing the profes- sion today and in the years ahead. “To my mind, there is a moral dilemma in dentistry today: it’s about making a choice between serving the public or making a good living. “When I was working in dentistry,


it was pretty simple: you got paid per item of service for every patient. However, now the profession has become more specialised and I think new graduates have more of an entrepreneurial approach to make dentistry more of a business than a public service. “The guys doing implants now are


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