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News Dentists leave after 23 years
A HUSBAND and wife dental team are to leave their Bearsted practice after nearly 23 years. Alastair and Pari Wrigley have
run their Cavendish Way surgery since October 1994. Now they are selling the business and hope to re- store homes, work in the Third World – and do blacksmith work. Mr and Mrs Wrigley met at Sheffield University, where they were both studying dentistry, and took over a small going concern to create the Wrigley Dental Practice. Now they have 2,500 customers –
all of whom have been informed of their decision by letter. Part-time receptionists Laura
Payne, Helen Robinson, JuliaVidgen and Julie Safavi will all continue with thenewownerswhenthey take over in July. Iranian-born Mrs Wrigley (50) will
stay on until the end of the year to ensure a smooth handover. “We’ve had a wonderful time here
but we wanted a complete career change,” said Mr Wrigley (53). “We don’t want to be like Prince
Philip and be doddering along, we want to quit whilewe are ahead and pass it over to a younger version of ourselves. “We cannot afford to retire so I’d
like to restore old houses and we’d both like to take our skills and help people in the Third World, maybe in Africa or Asia. “I’d also like to be a blacksmith, so
I can knock seven bells out of some- thing without it being attached to a patient, who might not be too happy. But it would only be things like light fittings or objets d’art.” He admitted the red tape of ad- ministration and paperwork – which he hates – played a part in their de-
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Alistair and Pari Wrigley (left) are handing over the practice to Kartik and Radha Patel, pictured with daughter Shaanti The new owner is south London-
cision to quit. He added: “Running a dental practice is a tough job, but we have been very fortunate with our customers. “We know going to the dentist is
not the highlight of most people’s weeks, but we hope to have given them all good customer care. “If Iwas reincarnated, I would like
to come back as the person who hands out the winning Lottery cheques as then at last people will be pleased to see me.”
born Dr Kartik Patel who starts in July and takes overMrWrigley’s pa- tient list. He is married to Radha, who will be practice manager, and they have a one-year-old daughter Shaanti. Dr Patel said:“We recognise there
will be a transition period, so rest as- suredwe will strive to keep the prac- tice running unchanged in that time to the high standard you have expe- rienced and come to expect.”
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