We've recently welcomed our first Dental Therapist to the team, so I thought I'd do a blog on what a therapist actually does. The Dental Therapy profession can be traced back to 1917 where at the time there was a desperate shortage of school service dental officers and the Armed services were recruiting registered (University [...]
Kids can be picky eaters. So how do you know the food they eat isn't bad for their teeth? The main cause of tooth decay is not the amount of sugar or acid in the diet, but how often it is eaten or drunk. The more often your child has sugary or acidic foods or [...]
Fluoride hails from the planet. It’s found naturally in rocks, soil and water, but fluoride doesn’t exist on its own. Like so many superheroes, it’s created through a scientific process. Fluoride is actually a chemical ion of fluorine, one of the top 20 most common elements in the earth’s crust. An ion is a positively- [...]
How Does Sedation Work? Sedation is a method of completely relaxing your mind and body, allowing dental treatment to take place with minimal disturbance and discomfort. Many nervous patients find that it enables them to endure lengthy procedures, feeling as though the time passed in just a few minutes. The sedatives themselves are substances, legal [...]
