Really pleased for you and your son Chris, but could never understand why anyone would choose a career involving close contact with peoples halitosis and manky teeth every day! Thankfully some do, and I'm pleased, as with my dental phobia and severe gag reflex the NHS Community Dental Service has taken me to a superb lady dentist (Indian, of Kenyan origin) who sticks a canula in my forearm, pumps anaesthetic in, I go to sleep and know nothing until she wakes me up, all at NHS rates. Waiting time is the only problem - it can be months, as it is ATM. By comparison (as NHS do not, except under exceptional circumstances) do implants, wife's implant supported lower full denture and ordinary upper denture cost us thousands!! Hopefully he will qualify and go to the NHS rather than the more lucrative private sector (or at least do a bit of both, as my wife's dentist does).