New for 2005Spreading the cost

Spreading the Cost

of your

Investment in Dental Health

If you are considering the benefits of more costly dental treatment, from Cosmetic Dentistry to Implants, we are planning to introduce a new credit system to help spread you the cost by the spring of 2005

Watch this Space !

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Goodbye Waiting Room,

Hello Reception Lounge

In keeping with the gradual improvemnts to the faciities we have made in 2004, it is our intention to redevelop the waiting room. Although not always successful, we do try very hard to avoid keeing you waiting for more than just a few minutes.

We will be transforming the "waiting room" into a reception lounge with more comfortable seating and a roomier feel. Fresh tea,coffee and fruit are available as well as a chilled water dispenser

Although our premises are "bijou" in nature we will be making better use of our space and have now rented secure storage space, just 5 minutes drive from the practice. This has allowed us to move out a mountain of paperwork and dental plaster models we are obliged to keep. Patient records are required to be kept for 11 years and of course we are obliged to store business records for 7 years.

Richard Charon

Straight teeth - no braces !

Invisalign

Straight teeth without wire braces !

Introducing Invisalign® a new and exciting way to straighten your teeth....WITHOUT WIRES or those ugly braces!. An increasing number of UK dentists currently offer Invisalign®, the first wireless braces and I am pleased to say that we now can offer this revolutionary tooth straightening option. Invisalign® is totally invisible and now with a combination of Cosmetic Dentistry and Invisalign® our practice is able to give you the beautiful, straight smile you’ve always wanted. It works through a series of invisible, removable, and comfortable aligners that no one can tell you’re wearing. So you can smile more during treatment as well as after. Please contact the practice for more information.

Click on the following link for the official website.

Invisalign

Technology at your service-"The Wand"tm introduced mid 2004

We believe that it is important to bring you the benefits enjoyed by people in the big cities and in leading edge dental practices the world over. In 2004 we introduced "The Wand" which has been very well received by our patients. The Wand is a revolutionay way to acheive painless dentistry without the use of a traditional syringe.

This new technology called The 'Wand'(tm), has been heralded as the first major advance since the local anaesthetic syringe.
This state of the art system uses a very slow and gentle computer controlled technique that minimises the anaesthetic dosage needed. This means that it only numbs the area needed, not the surrounding face, so no more feeling as though part of you belongs to someone else sometimes for several hours after treatment
The Wand, as well as using a completely revoloutionary technique, complies with our stringent cross infection control standards. A new sterile delivery tip is used for each patient. These are then disposed of carefully and incinerated by a licensed clinical waste collection service. When we first introduced the system, we thought we would use it for youngsters and especially nervous people. It is so good that we now use it routinely and many of you will already have tried it.
If you wish to try this more comfortable method of anaesthesia, please let us know.

Review of 2004 -Team News

2004 has been a year of happy events for our dental team with two births. Our Dental Hygienist, Nicky had a baby girl, Mia who was born in February . Tina, our senior dental nurse also had a baby girl, Leonie, who was born in June. All are doing well !

On the downside we did lose our trainee dental nurse Jo in the autumn.
The combined maternity leave and staff changes has placed an added workload on Chris and Laura and I thank them for managing so well.
Tina returned on a part-time basis Novemeber and we will be seeking an additional dental nurse early in 2005 .

If you think you may know a suitable candidate please let us know.

Review of 2004Richard's Professional Development News

2004 has been a busy and eventful year for me professionally.

Hands-on RA courses

One of the special services we offer for our anxious patients is RA (Relative Analgesia) or "happy air "and I have over 25 years of experience in this wonderful technique.

This year I began the first of what I hope will turn out to be regular full day Saturday seminars to teach other dentists the benefits and techniques involved. Dentists from as far as Jersey and from the prestigious Cherrybank Dental Spa Practice in Perth in Scotland have made their way to our practice at St Mary's House in Newbury.

These full day courses were run in Februray,June and October 2004.

We have turned the waiting lounge into a seminar room and the delegates have enjoyed a full day of PowerPoint seminar presentations , practical "hands-on" experience and demonstrations relayed via video link from the surgery . Many thanks to Chris for all her help in organising and running these courses.

Published articles

More on RA .....

As a result of the interest raised by and also, in part, to help market these RA courses, I have had a 2-part article on the subject commissioned and published in a quality subscription dental journal in the Spring of 2004 called "Private Dentistry". The articles merited continual professional development credits and were circulated to about UK 6000 subscribers.

These two articles were later republished in December in a broadsheet fortnightly magazine called, imaginatively, "Dentistry" and sent to all UK dentists (Over 30,000). My article covered two and a half pages.

Dental Implant Seminar Report

In November, Chris and I attended an evening seminar on a particular and novel way of using dental implants. The UK marketing director of NobelBiocare approached me to write a report on the meeting.
This full page report was duly published in the same December issue of "Dentistry" as my RA article ( see above) and so we are certainly on the map now !

British Academy of Aesthetic Dentistry (BAAD)

As I have done for each of the last 10 years, I attended this year's 3 -day annual conference, held this year in Eastbourne. The BAAD conference brings together like-minded dentists from all over the UK and some from abroad too to listen and be taught by some of the world's leading experts in this increasingly complex but very interesting field of dentistry.