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Health advice from your dentist? Find out more from SpaDental!
Health advice is good advice In a recent report the Nuffield Trust Director of Research, Professor John Appleby, indicated that dentists are in a good position to provide health advice to patients during their dental check-ups. The report said that discussing diet, alcohol consumption and giving up smoking can all help towards a healthier lifestyle….
Read more »Blue Wednesday is 15th November 2017
We all know about blue Mondays! Those Monday morning blues after the weekend never quite seem to leave you. For mouth cancer patients, their cancer blues will almost never leave them. There will always be a reminder of what they went through. Whether it’s their speech, their ability to eat and drink, or even just…
Read more »School Meals Week 2017
National School Meals Week 13th-17th November 2017 supported by SpaDental Today is the first day of the LACA special focus week, organised to encourage healthy eating and food awareness. School meals are a hot topic! School meals have changed for the better. Every morning children at school look forward to their lunch break. Children like to…
Read more »Sweet treats?
Sweet choices We’ve just had Hallowe’en – sugar-laden ‘treats’ ranging from traditional boiled sweets to chocolate bars and gummy things. And then Bonfire Night – toffee apples, caramel popcorn and perhaps some toasted marshmallows. Now we have the lead-up to winter festivities that may include hot chocolate and even advent calendars that have chocolate ‘treats’…
Read more »North/South divide shows in our babies’ teeth
A recent study by the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry has revealed that children under the age of two years old in the North of England are more than twice as likely to be taken to see an NHS Dentist than infants in the South. Are our babies’ teeth at risk? Dental professionals are keen to ensure…
Read more »Thinking of giving up?
Ten reasons to quit smoking: Live longer – SMOKING KILLS! So quit smoking now. Family matters – it’s not just about the smoker. Second-hand smoke affects others too. Better sex – male or female, smoking can damage your sex life. Look younger- smoking discolours skin and hair and increases wrinkles. Smokers look older than they are. Smell better…
Read more »Fun at your practice with the SpaDental Group
SpaDental always encourages you to bring your children along with you to the dentist, even if they don’t need to be treated. It can be fun! Fun in the clinic Getting small children used to visiting the dentist is a good idea. Children can be put off even by the noise and the smell of the…
Read more »Stoptober- October is the month to STOP SMOKING
Thinking of quitting? There’s never a ‘good time’ to stop smoking if you’re a smoker. So now is as good a time as any to give it up. If you want to stop smoking there’s a lot of support out there to help you on your way. Stoptober is the month to do it! Smoking…
Read more »Back to school – what an impact!
Have you been busy getting your kids ready to go back to school? Going out shopping to get new pieces of uniform, buying bags, notebooks and algebra sets? Could you have forgotten an essential? Your kid’s new sports mouth guard. It’s true that most school shops sell mouth guards to wear during fast paced sports…
Read more »Coming soon a fresh new look to our website
Watch out for the launch of the new SpaDental website! We have taken on board your comments, and are working hard on a brand new easier to use website, designed especially for our patients, whether you are using your phone, tablet or computer. Our preparations started early in the New year, and are now increasing, with new…
Read more »Kids devouring too much breakfast sugar warning
Children are packing in so much sugar at breakfast that half their daily allowance has already been eaten before school, Public Health England says. It warns that sugary cereals, juices and spreads are all damaging to health. Rotting teeth, ballooning waistlines and long-term health problems like type 2 diabetes are caused by unhealthy diets reports…
Read more »Be Mouthaware: Mouth Cancer Risk Factors
New government alcohol guidelines for Men and Women
Tim Esau published his MSc dissertation in The Royal College of Surgeons of England Faculty Dental Journal (FDJ)
In December 2015, Tim Esau, principal dentist at Wotton-under-Edge, published his MSc dissertation research as a paper in The Royal College of Surgeons of England Faculty Dental Journal (FDJ). Volume: 7 Issue: 1, January 2016, pp. 16-21 PDF version available at: http://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/pdf/10.1308/rcsfdj.2016.16 HTML version available at: http://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1308/rcsfdj.2016.16 The journal publication is titled: Patient understanding and recall of risks…
Read more »Are you mouthaware?
Mouth Cancer Risk Factors
Tobacco 2 in 3 mouth cancer cases are linked to smoking Smokers are 3 x more likely to be diagnosed with mouth cancer Incidence of throat cancer are 7 times higher in smokers Ex-smokers reduce the risk by 1/3 – you can make a difference! Alcohol Drinking to excess is associated with 1/3 of mouth…
Read more »Mouth Cancer Action Month November 2015
Mouth Cancer Action Month is a charity campaign which aims to raise awareness of mouth cancer and make a difference by saving thousands of lives through early detection and prevention. Throughout November they will be aiming to get more mouth cancers diagnosed at an early stage by increasing education of the risk factors and signs…
Read more »Tim Esau attended EuroPerio8 in London
From the 3rd to the 6th of June 2015, Tim Esau, principal of the SpaDental Wotton under Edge practice, attended EuroPerio8 in London. The EuroPerio Congress has established itself as the world’s leading conference in periodontology and implant dentistry, and has become the essential triennial fixture on the meetings calendar. This year Europerio was hosted…
Read more »Professor Dr Urs Belser visits the West Country
Recently, Professor Urs Belser visited us for the 2015 University of Bristol Dental Implant Masterclass on the 29th May 2015 at the Bristol Marriot Hotel, City Centre. In addition to the master-class, Tim Esau, principal of the Wotton under Edge practice, also attended an event where Professor Belser also kindly agreed to host an evening of…
Read more »NHS charges from 1st April 2015 announced
Dental charges for the year from 1st April 2015 increase by 30p, 80p, and £3.50 to £18.80, £51.30 and £222.50 over Band 1, 2 and 3 respectively. The changes are: Treatment Band 2015-16 Charge 2014-15 Charge Increase % One £18.80 £18.50 £0.30 1.62% Two £51.30 £50.50 £0.80 1.58% Three £222.50 £219.00 £3.50 1.60% If you…
Read more »Tim Esau at Royal College of Physicians: Avoiding Block Bone Grafting
On November the 14th 2014, Tim Esau, principal at the Wotton-under-Edge practice, attended a hands-on expert-led course at the Royal College of Physicians in London in order to further his skills in horizontal ridge augmentation without the need for block bone grafting. The course comprised 3 workshops. The central feature of these 3 workshops was…
Read more »Tim Esau in Manchester at the A-Z of Endodontics course
On the 3rd of October 2014, Tim attended The A-Z of Endodontics with Dr Cliff Ruddle in Manchester. Covering every stage of an endodontic treatment from cavity access to re-treatment, this comprehensive event included comprehensive instruction about root canal treatment from a clinical, procedural and product perspective – from one of the world’s leading endodontic…
Read more »Tim Esau at BDA seminar on Bio-aesthetics and the advanced use of composite in aesthetic and functional rehabilitations
On the 19th of September 2014, Tim Esau, principal dentist at Wotton-under-Edge, attended the BDA seminar on Bio-aesthetics and the advanced use of composite in aesthetic and functional rehabilitations. The course learning objectives were to use rationale and clinical procedures to restore smile aesthetics and tooth wear with minimal tooth preparation and destruction using composite…
Read more »Tim Esau back in Switzerland attending GBR & Sinus Grafting course
Between June the 11th and 13th 2014, Tim attended the Master Course in GBR and Sinus Grafting Procedures at the Centre for Continuing Dental Education in Bern in Switzerland. Two surgical procedures are mainly used to predictably augment bone deficiencies in the jaws, the GBR technique with barrier membranes or sinus floor elevation (SFE) methods…
Read more »Tim Esau’s MSc dissertation displayed at the World Implant Symposium in Geneva
Between April 24th and 26th 2014, Tim Esau, principal at the Wotton-under-Edge practice, attended the ITI World Implant Symposium in Geneva. The symposium is held every four years and presents a round-up of the major advances in the field of dental implants. The ITI welcomed more than 4,200 participants from 84 countries to its largest…
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