Dental Update 50 years young! 1973–2023

It is amazing how time flies when you are enjoying yourself!

My career in publishing started in 1983, in the classified sales team at a company called United Trade Press, working on a publication called Factory Equipment News, the leading magazine for managers in manufacturing plants, which kept them informed about all the latest products needed in the manufacturing process, a magazine of its time that unfortunately is no longer required, as basically in the UK we make nothing. I did not realize at the time, one of the UK's leading medical titles was celebrating its 10th anniversary, Dental Update. After 23 years as Managing Director and publisher of Dental Update, I look back and can see that being the Managing Director of this journal has been an honour, just being involved, and at work, enjoying myself. I still recall being ticked off by Board member Professor Edwina Kidd for calling Dental Update a ‘magazine’!