Posts Tagged ‘Dental’

Flame Health Dentistry are happy to hear that a dental charity is launching a campaign to help improve global oral health.

Bridge2Aid is asking practices to offer their patients a chance to add £1 to their bill under its  Small Change = Big Change scheme.

From these donations, every £120 raised, means that a whole village within East Africa will gain access to emergency dental care.

David Holden, Divisional Partner at Flame Health Dentistry comments,

“This is a great campaign. I am sure a lot of people within the UK do not know about dental struggles in countries such as Africa. I hope that dental practices take on this campaign and that the charity gains exposure and a fantastic amount of donation from the patients.”

Flame Health Dentistry are happy to hear that Implantium has been named the UK’s exclusive distributor of an innovative guiding tool. This tool makes implant dentistry more efficient and cost effective and eliminates the need to make individual drilling guides for each patient.

As an Associate Dentist, are you using this product within your practice? If you are, what is your feedback? Flame Health Dentistry are keen to hear your thoughts.

A new survey conducted by the Adult Dental Health Survey has shown that a large proportion of people in the UK have poor oral hygiene.

Disappointingly just 31% use mouth wash and only 22% floss. These dental routines need to be completed daily to reduce tooth decay and gum disease. Bad oral health leads to more trips to the dentist but if patients do not go and it is left untreated then serious consequences for the body’s overall health.

These statistics are slightly worrying. Flame Health Dentistry say, look after your teeth and have regular dental check ups!

It is worrying to hear that students from socio-economic backgrounds are being priced out of choosing dentistry as a career. Just one in six applications for dentistry last year were from students from a lower socio economic background.

This could be mainly down to debt. Dental students on average are graduating with £25,545 of debt compared to the average student with debt of £16,614. This will by no doubt increase further due to universities charging up to £9,000 a year for tuition fees. This could mean a dental student could owe a whopping £63,000!

Martin Nimmo, the chair of the BDA’s Young Dentists and Student Committees, said the BDA had warned government taking on sizeable debts could deter potential students.

He added: “The BDA believes that dentistry should attract the brightest and best candidates, regardless of their social background.”

So what does the future hold for courses such as dentistry? David Holden, Divisional Partner at Flame Health Dentistry comments,

“With university fees rising year on year it is understandable that people from certain backgrounds would be hindered from applying. With the high percentages of the youth of today being unemployed, fees like this do not help those who do want to better their careers. I am interested to see how the government could possibly tackle these issues in the future”.