Obviously, coronavirus has had an impact on every aspect of life and an impact on dentistry. I think the truth is that dentistry was quite exceptional in protecting people from the spread of respiratory viruses which is what Covid is and we became really good at it as a profession in the 80s when HIV first came on the scene and in the 90s and 2000s with variant CJD and so, I think that we'll look back and think that the precautions that dentists were taking before Covid hit were already pretty good and that's borne out by the fact that dentists shouldn't suffer so badly in the first effects of Covid.

Obviously since then we've become super safe in society and we've had a lot more regulation and protocols to introduce, just to be over safe and I think that is right. I think we should always take the side of caution here and so the protocols that they have developed over the last year allow us to just ensure the safety of patients to the highest possible level and in order to enact those protocols and to put them into practice, you also really need the facility to be able to do that.

You need the space, space in your waiting room, space in your treatment rooms, you need the facilities for cleaning everything and you ideally need a system where you recycle the air through the treatment areas as often as possible, so that it sucks out any potential virus that exists. We've been able to adopt those strategies and implement those procedures really quite quickly in the facility that we're in because its purpose built for that reason and so, that gives us great confidence in the fact that our team are super safe, and our patients are super safe.

When we closed in the first lockdown (however long ago that was), the main reason for closing was because we didn't understand enough to be able to guarantee the safety but now, we know we're safe, so I think in terms of living in the new world I think we’re quite well set.