Posts tagged 'oral hygiene'

Oral Cancer Screening - Key Reasons To Offer Preventive Screening To Your Patients Why is it so important to offer oral cancer screening in your practice? Oral cancer is one of the few oral diseases encountered by the oral health team that has significant morbidity and premature mortality. Tobacco products, alcohol consumption and sun exposure are the most recognized risk factors, but th...

Recent articles like ‘Can mouthwashes douse the spread of Covid 19?’ published in MedScape on June 12 and Dr Challacombe’s June ’20 paper presented  at the Royal Society of Medicine both suggest an oxidising mouthwash can reduce microbial load, which in turn could possibly halt the spread of Covid 19.

Ideally, a dental mouthwash should be potently antimicrobial yet safe and gentle on teeth, gums and the oral mucosa.

It should require a short contact time to make it convenient to rinse but allowing sufficient time to kill the target bacteria or virus.

SimplyOne Dental’s Kids’ Club may be fun for participants, but it has a serious end game, too… The art of great patient care is in the tailoring of the communication with any given demographic. When it comes to children, there is a very real need for practice teams to strike the right chord – both in their mode of engagement and in their timing. In essence, the consensus view is to start as...

F.A.C.E: Precision in caries excavation Most people know that the most common form of oral disease is tooth decay, Caries (tooth decay) produces acids that wear away at the healthy tooth structure over time, meaning it is extremely important to prevent the progress of the lesion to preserve sound tooth structure. As a dentist you know the constant challenge faced when removing caries is to a...

101 Years On, What Have We Learned? Kate Scheer from W&H looks at the importance of hygeine and how far we’ve come since the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 which infected 500million people across the globe, and resulted in the death of an estimated 20-50million people. Kate Scheer is marketing communications executive at W&H (UK) Ltd, a professional marketer with an MA in strategic marke...

Getting children to brush their teeth properly for a 2 whole minutes can often be a struggle, why not make it a breeze? You may have seen it on Dragons' Den, or you may have seen at BDIA Dental Showcase 2018, if you haven't seen it by now, we're talking about  the children's interactive toothbrush system, Playbrush! Playbrush is a smart toothbrush system that allows children to play games ...

Over the course of BDIA Showcase this year, a special event took place on the Friday evening on board the Sunborn Yacht Hotel. You may have heard about it, you may have went, either way we're here to give you an insight of what went down (and it wasn't the boat thank God!) at the BrushUp UK BoatBash. Who are BrushUP UK? BrushUP UK are a dental Charity based, and operating, in the Sout...

The development of dental adhesives has played a critical role in the revolution of restorative and preventative dentistry, in addition to helping pave the way for minimal invasive dentistry. Through the use of adhesives clinicians are able to make a more conservative cavity design, preserving healthy tissue as mechanical retention is no longer required. Dovetails, grooves and sharp angle u...

Dental burs, the tiny drill pieces for teeth! Dental burs are used in conjunction with the dentist's handpiece for cutting away hard tissue such as tooth and bone. There are a huge range of burs, with different materials, shapes and sizes to suit different situations and procedures. This bewildering range of options can leave you confused and unsure of what bur you require. Shanks  Shanks make...

Last year more than 7,000 people were diagnosed with oral cancer in the UK. In just a decade the disease has grown by a third, and of all the advances there have been in battling cancer, it is one of the few cancers that is actually predicted to increase. Of course there are several risk factors that are heavily linked to the disease, such as smoking, but oral cancer can affect anyone. Mout...