Deborah Bell shares her advice on the best ways to boost treatment uptake… All dental practices are unique, but at the heart of every one is delivering quality treatment that improves patients’ oral health and wellbeing. And, of course, treatment is also a main source of revenue, so it can be frustrating when patients don’t… Read More
Oral Health
What do your patients know?
Your job as a dental practice is to help your patients achieve and keep good dental health. That means it’s also your job to make sure they know why a healthy mouth is important and what they should be doing at home to look after their mouths. When giving advice, it helps if everyone in… Read More
Get teens on track with their oral health!
The adolescent patient group is notoriously a challenging one. With an increase in independence, behaviour grows ever more experimental – with smoking, alcohol, drugs and diet choice (with high sugar consumption) all having a negative impact. Resembling celebrity Kim Kardashian and nailing PlayStation’s FIFA 17 are the skills much coveted by today’s teenagers. Achieving lifelong… Read More
Beyond sugar: three dietary factors for better health
Discussions on diet and dentistry tend to focus on sugar, and the need to lower the amount we consume. But what other dietary factors should we be thinking about, and possibly in terms of increasing rather than reducing? Research has indicated that tackling nutritional deficiencies can improve dental diseases including gingivitis, periodontitis and tooth decay…. Read More
Why you should ditch sugar from your diet!
Sugar is quickly ousting fat as the food to avoid, with recent headlines declaring it ‘addictive’ and ‘as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco’. With all this media attention, perhaps you have started considering quitting, or at least significantly reducing your sugar intake? By ‘sugar’ we’re talking about free sugar, i.e. that which has been added… Read More
Stay on top of your oral health this summer!
During the summer we let ourselves relax and we start to enjoy a few alcoholic drinks in the garden, coupled with all those oh so delicious sugary drinks and acidic foods! So to help you and your patients stay healthy whilst the sun is shining, Edd Jones from Hartley Dental in Plymouth has shared his tips… Read More
