Opinion We have had on offer pref-
erential loans for anything from a sterilising room to a disabled access lift. Golden hellos, grants for this and that, even postgraduate centres that we cannot actually afford, that have nonetheless been built with private finance initiatives that inflate the real cost by as much as 300 times the actual build cost. The felony has been greater
compounded by hugely expen- sive clinics that have opened (where there was no need), which are often grossly inef- ficient centres for mostly drilling and refilling. A rash of therapists, who at best are half trained and at worst do not understand the beneficial role that a hygienist has to play in high-quality long-term dental care, have been pushed through. All this to assuage the politicians’ discomfiture about the lack of availability of NHS dentistry in the past.
“I believe that before the end of this decade, we will see our economy rebalance to a low tax economy that allows enterprise to flourish as it does in the Far East”
Eilert Eilertsen The only thing that really
works in dentistry is preven- tion. For a tiny fraction of the cost of the above, the water supply could be fluoridated and all those drillers and fillers would be redundant. So, in 2020, I am looking
forward to a welfare-free Great Britain where the Government is much smaller than it is at the moment. Where we are honest about what we can collectively afford and we are prepared to downsize to debt-free. Where
people are proud to stand on their own two feet and pay for the cost of their treatment either through mutual funds or insurance. Where the cycle of genera-
tional welfarism has been broken and the great populous is proud to work at every level. Where NHS dentistry has been finally consigned to the dustbin of bad ideas that gradually got worse and dentists are proud of the work they deliver, which is paid for by their patients or
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr Eilertsen graduated from the University of Dundee in 1976, and opened his first practice in Dingwall in 1978. He has maintained a special interest in restorative dentistry and implantology since 1994. With his wife Margaret, also a Dundee graduate, he opened Eilertsen Dental Care in Inverness in 2010.
their insurers and so does not cost the taxpayer a penny. A new era of patient moti-
vation and education, where over-zealous therapists, keen to hone their skills like dinosaurs and new cross-auxiliaries, have thankfully passed into history. Dream or reality, it is a better vision for the future!
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