Posts tagged 'oral hygiene'

Are you still scaring your patients by coming at them with a BIG SYRINGE? If you are using the traditional LA syringe to deliver your anaesthetics then most likely you are! In the mind of the Patient if not in reality. No matter how good you are with your injections, most of your patients (well at least mine) still hate having THAT BIG NEEDLE. Some years ago I attended a course on Local ...

Our friend, Edward Doff, tells us about his experience with the Trudi Birger Dental clinic in Israel. A dental clinic providing free treatment for those in need. Foundation In 1947, a teenager disembarked from a boat in Haifa. Trudi Birger, having somehow survived the horrors of Stutthof concentration camp, had arrived in Israel to build a new life - and to make a difference. In her memoir,...

How Buttercup Dental Tackles Dental Phobia Almost half of UK adults have a fear of the dentist. That’s an awful lot of people that are either slightly worried, extremely uncomfortable, scared, or terrified to come and see you. Buttercup dental have some great guidance on how to tackle this issue so we thought we'd let them share it with you! It’s our responsibility as dentists to make s...

Most people know that sugar is bad for your teeth, but not many people know why. Your mouth is full of bacteria, there are many that are good for your oral ecosystem and some that are bad. The bad bacteria feeds on sugar, creating acids that destroy the tooth enamel. We as Britons have a huge intake of sugar every week, an average of 700 grams, which roughly converts into 170 teaspoons. Suga...

For those of you who regularly read our blog, you'll be aware that last Thursday we held our second whitening evening; sponsored by SDI, Braemar and hosted by DecaDent. For those of you who don't know about the events we have been putting on, we have been holding verifiable CPD presentations informing dentists, dental nurses and oral hygienists on the procedures and regulations of tooth whi...

Everyone knows that a chain is only as strong as it's weakest link, and for a team to perform at their best each individual must work to their best ability within their role. We as humans have the highest levels of productivity when working together. H.E. Luccock explained this best when he said "“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.” The recent success of Leices...

Last year more than 7,500 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...

Tooth whitening, a procedure that is a forever growing trend and is keeping many dentists in pocket. Of all the dental procedures, whitening is amongst the most desirable. But how much do you really know about tooth whitening? If you know anything on the subject you'll know that SDI's Pola range is the Crème de la crème. Here at Dental Sky we pride ourselves on our close relations with our su...

Are you happy? If you are there's a 90% chance that you're smiling right now! There may be a lot of confusing, hard to read facial expressions but smiling is the universal sign of happiness. It's a common myth that it takes less muscles to smile than it does to frown, and although we don't quite know exactly how many muscles are used there are plenty of reasons to smile each day. Here are a...

Besides professional fighters, babies and maybe your local drunk, everyone has teeth. Despite the fact that we use them on a regular basis we don't really give our teeth much thought past the formality of brushing and flossing. Our teeth are efficient tools (and apparently great accessory items!) that have always been recognised as an important part of the body. Believe it or not but dentis...