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Poor Dental Health or Poor Health | Which Came First?

Are your health problems causing poor dental health or is poor dental health causing your health problems? It’s a well-known fact that eating a diet full of processed foods, sweets and sugary drinks can be detrimental to your dental health, causing cavities/gum problems etc.   However……. Did you know that if you are eating well but […]

How to Get Children Engaged with Good Dental Hygiene

A child’s early experiences of dental hygiene can impact on the rest of their life; therefore, it is so important to teach them about good habits as soon as possible. In primary schools across the UK about eight or nine children in every class will already have developed tooth decay and almost one in three […]

White fillings – An Alternative to Mercury

Why Choosing White Fillings is Best? Black fillings, which are the most common type of filling available with the NHS, is quite literally a lump of metal containing a lot of liquid mercury which is pushed down into the cavity. At the point of insertion and any subsequent drilling of the filling, the mercury content […]