#followFriday #newbury 10th July

Hello tweeps. This is my first attempt at transferring #ff tweets to my blog. Blogger .com seems to have lost its font options. So Times Roman it will have to be. If it goes well I'll set up a separate blog for the purpose.

At present my personal twittosphere is split between my #newbury tweeps , #dentistry tweeps and general tweeps with something of interest to say such as seth godin where fans of S.G. relay their latest thoughts and reviews of his blog/video/books/thoughts etc.

So #ffs for all my #newbury worthies include local twittergurus
@Nigel-Morgan @DianeMorgan00, Local all round good egg @AdrianHiggs , local bon oeufs (is that franglais?)@LePetitSquare, local stringbender @peacockpete , local natural therapy and health foodies @natures_corner, local networker and hypnotherapist extaordinaire ( amongst other talents) @rbullivant , local notable networker and Business Exec. coach @Michelle_Lucas
With apologies to newbury folk omitted this week. I'll try harder nxt week.
HAGWE all

Richard Charon

2 great new Testimonials in one day

Every now and again we receive great testimonials from some of our patients that really show how we can make a difference to people's lives. Indeed proving we are remarkable.

The first arrived as a "tweet" today from Mike Samuels. Mike is a Medical Photographer and like me is busy using Twitter to reach out and let people know what we are about.
Mike is new patient to the practice and we have recently started some treatment for him.
Today he gave me praise indeed with his tweet:

MikeSamuels68 Incredible dentist @RichardCharon forget your fears & phobias his anaesthetic techniques are something else!! Fantastic man gr8 dentist.

Receiving that early today really made my day. Then out of the blue another terrific one came in this afternoon. . Here it is as it arrived by e-mail.

I had never thought that I would want to write anything good about the dentist! I’ve spent my life in fear and avoidance. In the end things can be avoided no longer if you want to keep your teeth and be able to smile, I was in pain, very frightened and probably (no definitely) difficult. I searched the internet and found Richard Charon. All I want to say is he has done the most amazing job both to my teeth and to my phobia of the dentist, ably supported by Jill, who spent a lot of time explaining why my teeth were in their terrible state and what I was going to do to help her resolve the problems. It’s worked, it’s great, don’t be afraid just pick up the phone, everyone is so supportive, there are no judges. I don’t have one single bad thing to say. Well done to all and I’ll see you soon for my check up!

Lesley Ives

So if you know anyone like this that we could help, please feel free to forward this on or speak to Chris Charon

My Hands-on teaching course

On Saturday 13th June, I held another hands-on teaching course in Newbury in "R.A"

Here I teach other dentists and dental nurses how to help their patients overcome dental anxiety using the "happy air" method. I developed these courses in 2003 and have run over twenty of them by now, including three in Ireland, by invitation. See the latest excellent testimonials here.

When is a filling not a filling?

Q So When is a filling not a filling?

A When its a work of art !

Before

After

I have just completed this one this morning.

If you would like your fillings to look like this, then contact us here.

new animoto video to promote Invisalign.

I'm delighted to say that I've just completed a new animoto (http://www.animoto.com/) video to promote Invisalign. It is now on my website and e-zine . I'll be using it as an intro at my Invisalign open evening in Newbury next month.

My "Happy Air" teaching course

Well that's my teaching day over today, until the next one in June.

Despite a few audio-visual hiccups due to working in a new venue , I believe the delegates had a good day, judging from the thanks and feedback we received.

Six people travelled down from Barnsley, Three dentists and three nurses. Three attended from Surrey. One dentist and two nurses and one dentist came from Hampshire.

In addition we were joined by Janet and Chris Pickles of RA Medical Services Ltd. They are also base in Yorkshire and they were on hand to add their wealth of practical knowledge to add value for the delegates.

The Barnsley group were from an NHS practice and their course fees were funded by their local PCT.

Here are two of the feedback comments:

"Excellent course suitable for novices and experienced practitioners. Very enjoyable day."

"Really enjoyed the day. Everything I needed to know was covered and I will feel confident to use RA when I get back to work next week"

Here is the venue at Precision Dental Studio Thatcham. My thanks to the lab. Manager Richard Stock and one his technicians, David who gave up time on Saturday afternoon to show a group of the delegates around the lab.

Calm before the Storm?

Chris and I are resting this evening after a long day. This evening after finishing at the practice with two Invisalign cases, one starting and one review, we headed for Precision Dental Studio in Thatcham to set up for tomorrow's course.

This will be the 20th Hands-on course we have run, training other dentists and their teams in the benefits and techniques of Inhalation Sedation, also called RA or Happy Air.

This is a new venue for us as the numbers attending have outgrown our practice (for now at least). We are hosting a team of 6 from Yorkshire, 3 from Surrey and a single dentist from Andover. We are being joined by Laura Horton, a very entrepreneurial person. She originally trained as dental nurse and now runs a consultancy implementing a variety of in-house training programs for dental practices across the country. Laura expressed an interest in my courses and thought they may be of benefit to her clients, so she is coming along to find out for herself.

We are being joined by Janet and Chris Pickles of RA Medical Services , also joining us from Yorkshire, to assist the delegates in making their purchasing and servicin decisons. My thanks to them for supplying equipment for demonstration use for the day.

Finally thanks go to Dentaid a charity providing re-furbished dental equipement to the third world and voluntary organisations. They have agreed to loan a portable dental chair for the day to allow practical demonstrations.

To bed soon as we need to be at the venue bu 7.30 am !