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Can you hear us? Having a voice in dentistry

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Even in a world of text messages and emails, the spoken word is an essential ingredient in communication and here, Stephen Hancocks explores the importance of having a ‘voice’ individually and just as importantly, as a group

It often happens that in attempting to explain or describe something to someone, you accidentally hit on a meaning that had hitherto been hidden to you, or that you had never thought of. A few years ago, I was trying to answer a Finnish colleague's bewilderments about Prime Minister's Questions. She was describing her amazement that the ‘mother of parliaments’ was such an unruly, apparently rude and seemingly chaotic affair, which hardly seemed to do justice to the otherwise good name of democratic debate. These sentiments are also expressed by UK citizens, but coming from the external eye of an overseas observer, it seemed to need a greater explanation than ‘Oh, that's politicians for you’.

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