With not lengthy left till the 2025 Dentistry Awards deadline, Matt Everatt shares tips on how to enter and why the dental lab neighborhood ought to get entangled.
I do know awards can divide opinion. I make no apologies about this, however I really like them. Some see them as a real mark of excellence, whereas others stay sceptical, believing they’re extra about advertising and marketing than benefit.
Having seen first-hand the affect that recognition can have on dental laboratories, technicians, and medical dental technicians (CDTs), I really consider that coming into the Dentistry Awards is absolutely value contemplating.
Firstly, these awards shine a a lot wanted highlight on the work of labs and technicians – too usually we go unnoticed. Successful and even being shortlisted, offers exterior validation of the talent, precision and dedication that goes into producing high-quality lab work. This recognition isn’t simply good for enterprise; it additionally helps to raise the wonderful work of the person technicians.
Secondly, coming into an award forces you to take inventory of your achievements – its fairly a cathartic course of. It’s a chance to mirror on what you do nicely, what makes you stand out and the way you’ve made a distinction to sufferers lives. As one of many judges, I get to see the entries, and belief me: you guys produce some unbelievable work. Final 12 months’s entries had been unbelievable.
Lastly and most significantly, there’s the networking. The awards convey collectively like-minded professionals, opening doorways to new collaborations and alternatives. Sure, awards require effort, however the potential rewards, enhanced fame, group morale and (it is a huge one, I’ve discovered) new enterprise make them nicely value contemplating.
Are they a strong software for celebrating and selling excellence? Completely.
The classes
Group Members of the 12 months
This class is open to dental technicians and medical dental technicians. Clarify why you need to win by submitting any, or a mix, of the next:
Exhibit your ardour for the occupation
Inform the judges of something excellent you’ve got finished or been concerned in
Element any hurdles you’ve got overcome
Present proof of wonderful affected person care or the place you transcend the common responsibility of care
Present how or why you’re completely different from others
Present proof of reference to the area people or a charity
Embody related testimonials and supporting proof
Embody a picture of the group member.
You may solely enter one group member class ie dental technician or medical dental technician. Please embrace the title of the dental lab you at present work at/for.
Dental Laboratory of the 12 months
Spotlight the way you keep constant excessive requirements of labor all through the laboratory
Present proof of the way you transcend the common responsibility of shopper care
Describe how the group is led
Present how you retain the group glad
Exhibit the way you join with the area people
Embody examples of medical excellence
Embody photos of the laboratory and group
Embody related movies if attainable
Present your advertising and marketing plan and reveal its effectiveness
Give proof of funding and improvement in your lab and your group
Embody just a few related testimonials
Monetary progress: is the lab profitable and viable?
Labs a part of a bunch should enter every lab web site individually.
Group of the 12 months
Exhibit an ideal group environment and strategy to affected person care
How does your lab put money into group improvement and coaching?
How are you completely different from the competitors?
Present the place your group goes above and past the common responsibility of care
Present proof of reference to the area people or charity
Should embrace a picture of the group.
Groups from labs a part of a bunch should enter every group individually.
Tips on how to enter
Getting into couldn’t be simpler! Head to dentistry.co.uk/awards/the-dentistry-awards to register. Add your particulars and choose your classes. You’ll then obtain an e-mail saying that you’ll be able to submit an entry.
To submit your accomplished entry, click on ‘enter now’, fill out the net kind and add your entry. That is now the one solution to submit.
The entry deadline is Wednesday 19 March 2025.
Entries for the Dentistry Awards have to be submitted in one of many following accepted codecs: JPEG, PNG, DOC, DOCX, PDF, MP4, MOV, PPT or PPTX. Every particular person file have to be restricted to 100MB in dimension.
Whereas supporting pictures are welcome, they can’t be submitted as standalone information; as a substitute, they have to be integrated right into a single PDF to make sure seamless viewing by the judges. Movies will also be submitted however have to be in MP4 or MOV format and cling to the 100MB file dimension restrict.
Please word that ZIP information, Keynote, and Pages information is not going to be accepted. The entire mixed dimension of all submitted paperwork, pictures, and movies should not exceed 1GB.
Not like earlier years, the FMC awards group won’t be able to compress or course of your information or settle for entries through Wetransfer to the awards inbox. To maximise your probabilities of being shortlisted, guarantee your entry is concise, however meets all outlined standards.
Get in contact for help
You probably have any questions or queries, the FMC awards group can be delighted to help. You may attain us at awards@fmc.co.uk or name 01923 851777. All entries containing as much as 750 phrases plus supporting paperwork have to be submitted through the web site at dentistry.co.uk/awards/the-dentistry-awards by clicking the ‘enter now’ button.
The judges resolution is closing and no correspondence regarding the outcomes will likely be entered into. You have to be at present practising within the UK or Republic of Eire.
Learn the complete entry information right here.
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