#59 - Vita di Sorisi - In conversation with Alfonso Rao

You’d never know that this week’s guest was a man without a plan when he first arrived on UK shores from native Italy some 11 years ago.

Since then, Dr Alfonso Rao has launched an expanding group of clinics and a dental training academy while also building a name as one of the Southwest’s foremost implant dentists.

And he’s achieved all of this before the age of 40, seemingly without ruffling a single feather.

We probe Alfonso on the secrets of his success, life in the UK, work-life balance and much more.

Enjoy!   

“I don't really often like to be told what to do. If someone tells me and explains to me and I see the reason I'm fine. But if someone says, “you have to do that because it is the way you have to do it,” I'm not too good following.”
- Alfonso Rao 

In This Episode

01.19 - Backstory
08.27 - Italy vs the UK
11.28 - Practice ownership, expansion and work-life balance
19.48 - Teaching
24.37 - The plan
29.00 - Associates
32.03 - On mistakes
37.09 - Out of the clinic
40.11 - Thinking of Italy
43.37 - USPs
45.08 - Exit strategy
46.21 - Last day on earth

About Alfonso Rao

Alfonso Rao graduated from the University of Chieti in 2007 and spent time in practice in Italy before moving to the UK.

He opened a series of clinics in Bristol and Portishead which he later consolidated under the Apollonia Group brand.

He also founded the Delta Training Academy - a leading dental and implantology training centre.

Alfonso is a member of the British Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry and the Association of Dental Implantology.

He is also a key opinion leader and brand ambassador for Strauman, Geitlich, NSK and several other dental technology brands.