19 February 2005
Dental Health Matters No2 Tooth Mousse (Recaldent)
Click here for an informative video about this exciting new dental product. http://www.recaldent.com/WIR_tooth_decay.htm
We can supply Recaldent in the form of "Tooth Mousse" in a variety of pleasant flavours.
Please ask when you next visit or just drop into the practice to purchase some.
Special Offer No1Electric Toothbrshes
"My Dentist" e-zine
available at
COST PRICE !
2 Probright brush heads
1 dual action brush head
Speed Control
Special Offer price £68
6 items in stock
15 February 2005
Introductionand Happy New Year
Richard Charon
12 February 2005
Dental Health MattersNo.1
Tooth brushing and your Heart !
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4243893.stm
Are you ready to book that long overdue Dental Hygiene appointment ? !
Nicky Smith will be happy to see you soon
We look forward to your next visit
07 February 2005
...and now for something completely
I hope you enjoy them.
In November 2004, Chris and I went up to the Lake District.I'd like to share a few of my favorite photos taken around Buttermere and Haystacks.
18 January 2005
Team News 2: Congratulations
Laura has been with our practice as a trainee Dental Nurse for just over 18 months. In fact I have been looking after Laura as a dental patient since she was about 13 years old !
During her time as a trainee she has undertaken an evening college course and in-house training. She sat her National Certification exam in November 2004 and has just received the good news that she has passed and is now a qualified and registered Dental Nurse.
In future she will have the option of continuing her dental nursing career path which might include further qualifications in areas such as Dental Radiography or Sedation Assisting.
30 December 2004
New for 2005Spreading the cost
Straight teeth - no braces !
28 December 2004
Technology at your service-"The Wand"tm introduced mid 2004
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
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.
26 December 2004
Review of 2004Richard's Professional Development News
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.



