Happy New Year for 2007

from the team at

St.Mary's House Dental Practice

We hope you had an enjoyable holiday

and look forward to seeing you again

Richard Charon BDS - keeping you posted

SEASONS GREETINGS

Here's Chris

enjoying a Norwegian walk >

WISHING YOU A HAPPY CHRISTMAS

AND

A HEALTHY AND FRUITFUL NEW YEAR

Now here is something for us to make

a Song and Dance About ............

...Our Practice Refurbishment Nears Completion !

The carpets are laid, the practice has been painted and the new unisex loo is 95% finished. Chris's new desk graces the reception lounge and new tub-style chairs arrived today. The new hard flooring for most areas of the practice has been completed and few finishing touches will be made shortly after Christmas to see the job completed. Thanks for your patience during the transformation.


Our Team's Continued Training

Four-Handed Dentistry

In November I took the two dental nurses, Laura and our new trainee Emma, for a one day course on "Four-handed Dentistry". This is not a new concept but is worth updating to keep us on our toes and ensure we work ergonomically.
Close- support or "Four-handed Dentistry",ensures greater comfort and efficiency for both patient and dental team, which must be a good thing.

Resuscitation

All Dentists and their teams must keep up-to-date with the latest teaching in resuscitation and handling medical emergencies. These are thankfully rare and most often not connected to the dental treatment but may happen by chance on our premises. Although also rare these days, the most likely dentally related occurance is a simple faint brought about by anxiety and perhaps lack of food. However, we must be prepared for all eventualities. The team attended an Immediate Life Support at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and are now additionally trained in the use of defibrillators

As a result of this and in concert with the new guidelines from the General Dental Council, we will be investing in an automatic external defrillator (Heart start machine) to add to our normal resuscitaion equipment and medication.

Statistics show that defibrillation within 3 minutes of a heart attack, very greatly increase the chances of a victim 's survival.

So in the hope and likely expectation that we will never have to use it.
we expect to have one on the premises shortly. We are seeking funding for this. Watch this space.

New consent forms for sedation

Again, in line with current guidelines , we will be asking all patients who have sedation

(" Happy Air" or Intra-venous) to sign a newly worded consent form before each sedation visit.

Please ask for further details if this affects you.