Michael Watson tells the BDA's John Milne that the time is ripe for some plain speaking from a plain-speaking Yorkshireman
The news that dentists’ earnings had fallen by over 8% in the year 2010/11elicited little response from the media. In contrast a few years ago, many picked up on the figure that some dentists were earning over £200,000.
This year the Daily Telegraph though told its readers that ‘hundreds of dentists are earning more than £300,000 under new contracts'. Not exactly true as the data included private as well as NHS earnings.
