Dr Barry Oulton owned Haslemere Dental Centre in Surrey for nearly 20 years, turning it into an award-winning practice with a reputation for outstanding customer service. In 2017, he founded The Confident Dentist Academy created to help dental professionals learn effective communication skills, selling with integrity so they can have more impact and make a bigger difference, both professionally and personally.

Barry’s courses show techniques to help improve the way Dentists communicate with their patients demonstrate how building true rapport with patients, and others, leads to meaningful, long-lasting customer relationships. Aligned with the use of positive language, good listening skills and subtle persuasion, the dentist can make a good impression that translates into happy patients, a good working environment and, ultimately, sees profit increase.

In 2018 he sold his practice to The Portman Group.