Top row (l-r) Gaynor Barrett, Principal Dentist, 38 Devonshire Street; Shelly Foster, Clinical Manager, Abi Dental; Noor Sharif, 2nd Year dental student, Barts; Abi Al-adhami, Principal Dentist, Abi Dental; Sylvie Sturrock, Business Manager, The Neem Tree Dental Group; Laura Horton, Director & Trainer, Laura Horton Consulting; Felicity Cleaver, Practice Development Manager, Love Your Smile Surbiton; Cristina Sabau, Business Development Manager, Chiral Systems Ltd. Front row (l-r) Janine Grayling, Dental Recruitment Consultant, The Dental Recruit Network; Ruby Bhachu, Mary Lupton, both dental nurses at 38 Devonshire Street

Eleven ‘dental ladies’ known as the ‘Running Dental Devils’ gathered in Finsbury Park, London on 7 July this year and raised over £600 for Cancer Research UK.

Laura Horton, Sylvie Sturrock and a number of other ladies working in the dental industry ran in a Race for Life event in 2010, but this year they chose a location that offered 5 km and 10 km distances. Five of this year's group ran 10 km and six ran 5 km.

‘We had a fantastic day even though there was a major downpour before the race,’ said Laura Horton. ‘The sense of achievement and the mood among the team when we finished was fabulous. Achieving something as part of a group is much more rewarding than doing so alone.’

The Running Dental Devils were very grateful to Wil Watts, Events Manager at dental CPD training centre Seminars@thirtyeight, who waited in the mud and rain to look after the ladies' bags!

To see more photographs from the day and to stay informed about the 2013 event, visit www.facebook.com/therunningdentaldevils.