6 Tips on Managing Children in a Dental Surgery
Ideas from Dental Nurses who are also Mums by Charlotte Taylor
Category: Dentistry
And back in the room …
Cornwall. Preferred holiday destination of Prime Ministers, surfers, and a surprisingly large number of people from The Netherlands and Germany.
Dental lab work and patient care
The arrival of the courier bringing the day’s lab work causes mild excitement in every dental practice. In many practices, the appointment book is organised to take advantage of this; we usually take impressions before his/her arrival, and carry out fittings afterwards.
Using imaging technologies to enhance patient care
Modern dental imaging technology is amazing. We now have digital x-rays that throw an image to the dentist’s computer screen in seconds. ‘OPG’ machines can create a panoramic radiograph (a 2d image of the patient’s whole dentition). We even have digital scanners that can create a 3-D map of the inside surfaces of a patient’s mouth.
Oh my God! They use Exact!
When I trained as a dental nurse I spent 18 months working for a large chain of dental practices, and although I worked at two locations 30 miles or so apart, they used the same software