And so, if you revert back to last night's blog there's a story that I missed the publication of a blog on Monday night and I had to repeat one.
The reason for that is that I was traveling or to be more precise, at that stage when the blog should have been published, in a meeting.
I never write about traveling until I'm finished traveling so, as you read this, I'll be arriving back at my house having spent the last three days in Switzerland.
I went to Switzerland initially on the invitation of Rony Jung, who I've become really good friends with after we talked together and then he started to speak and collaborate with the Academy, but he had invited me to the University of Zurich (where he is Chairman of Oral Reconstruction) to investigate the possibility of a collaboration between our lot and his lot.
It was perhaps one of the most extraordinary afternoons of my practising career so far.
I got a personal tour of the whole of the University of Zurich dental facility by Rony Jung (Rony never does that for anybody apparently according to his PA) and we sat in his office and explored mutual lines of philosophical, educational and research collaboration that we could work with for the next 10 to 15 to 20 years.
One of Rony’s jobs is to deliver the brand-new University of Zurich Dental School by 2030 and building will start 18 months from now.
I was able to see the plans for that, but I was also able to walk around the existing one and realised that the existing University of Zurich Dental School is probably better than any dental school I've ever seen and so I have no idea how wonderful the next one is likely to be.
Rony is back with us in July to do his master class on hard and soft tissue, which I've repeatedly said (much to the annoyance of lots of people) is one of the best pieces of postgraduate education I have ever seen.
It is extraordinary research made practical and available in clinical terms to the 80% of practitioners who consider themselves competent (not for the superstars).
It gives all of us things that we can take back to practice on Monday and is delivered by one of the most exciting and charming clinicians I have ever met.
His research collaborations and innovations are world class.
He teaches in one of the best institutions in the world and he is definitely held up as being one of the best clinicians in the world.
As I was at Zurich over Monday and Tuesday, I found out which members of which royal family he's been treating regularly over the past 15 years and also the fact that some of the very best implant clinicians in the world send their children to Rony for work experience because they rate him as the highest possible calibre.
For me to get a tour around Zurich with Rony was quite extraordinary. To spend Monday evening having dinner with him and to scope the future was also equally as extraordinary but what I would suggest to you is that you watch these pages and keep in touch.
If you're interested in implant dentistry and not just the type of implant dentistry where you shoot people with a gun full of implants in order to make as much money as possible.
If you're actually interested in being better and enjoying things and having a fulfilling career, then continue to watch because the stuff that's going to come out between The Campbell Academy and The Campbell Clinic and the University of Zurich is going to be nothing short of extraordinary (fun and excitement).
I'll leave you with a little story of how you should be a clinician moving forwards.
As we were touring the dental school, Rony told me about the story of how it was requested that he would treat the king of a country who you will recognize and remember.
The king and all of his entourage arrived at the University of Zurich to be treated by a young Rony Jung (only 32 at this stage) and after he had been vetted and they had sat together, he was told by the king's physician (he was not allowed to speak directly to the king himself) that they would be happy for him to treat the king at two of his residences around the world, both of which had dental suites inserted.
Rony explained (as politely as possible) that he would only be prepared to treat the king at the University of Zurich because to treat him anywhere else would be to decrease the quality.
That is the making of this man.
The king and his entourage left in short order without a backwards glance only to return five months later where the king said to Rony “I like you”.
The only words he's ever actually said to him despite the treatment that he's undertaken over the years,
Principles are important, morals are important and finding people with whom you are aligned is perhaps the most important way to keep those things alive.
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