The Profession That Forgot How to Learn
The TechDental Podcast · 2026-04-14 · 45 min
Episode notes
The Profession That Forgot How to Learn | Dr. Dhru Shah | Dentinal Tubules | TechDental Podcast Direct Answer: Dr. Dhru Shah, founder and CEO of Dentinal Tubules, argues that the UK's most prominent dental professional development community is not a CPD compliance platform. It is professional infrastructure. With 60,000 users, 17 years of data about how dental professionals actually learn, and an active transition from content provision to AI-enabled curation, Dentinal Tubules is becoming what Dhru calls a professional growth passport: the documented evidence of a practitioner's development trajectory, insight, and translated capability in a profession that is harder to standardise and harder to lead than ever before. What is this episode about? There are 125,736 dental professionals registered with the GDC. Every single one has a mandatory CPD obligation. Every single one needs a personal development plan. And for most of them, continuing professional development is something to be endured rather than genuinely valued. In this episode of TechDental, Dr. Randeep Singh Gill sits down with Dr.