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title: Replication Envy
description: Once you get past enough the purposes change and anything that you’re able to change for what you think is better is a reward in itself because you already have enough.
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# [Replication Envy](https://www.campbellacademy.co.uk/blog/replication-envy)

 Written by [Colin Campbell](https://www.campbellacademy.co.uk/blog/author/colin-campbell) | 04/04/18 17:00

[Chris](http://www.coachbarrow.com) has previously been running around the country, in part, showing off the treatment box that we invented for treatment presentations with the fancy branded SD card. [SCED](http://www.scottishdentistry.com) had been showing off their new SD card and electronic patient communication system as designed by Chris on social media – the same as the one we had some years ago.

[Alex](http://www.pdcdental.co.uk/alex-jones.html) has just instituted a 10-year guarantee for his dental implant patients in his practice.

Alex and Shaun Sellars both presented their General Dental Council cases at lectures in 2017.

A major dental supply company are patenting my idea for modifications to a surgical guide and taking all the money…

… We invented the box 5 years ago.

We invented the SD card with the box (the first in dentistry I think?).

We invented the 10-year guarantee for implants (I think?).

I think I was one of the first people to do a public discussion of my General Dental Council case in a lecture.

I have discussed the suggestions for the surgical guide modifications with three different people and only the third has taken it and ran with it.

We should be upset, as a little team at The Campbell Clinic that the ideas that we have get ‘stolen’ and taken on by others; often improved, modified or refined.

But that misses the point entirely doesn’t it?

Seth’s blog [here](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2018/03/when-your-ideas-get-stolen.html) is the best example of this.

Once you get past enough the purposes change and anything that you’re able to change for what you think is better is a reward in itself because you already have enough.

 

Blog post number: 1602 

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