I was bought up in Cambridgeshire. When I left college, I found myself a job as a dental nurse. I started as a trainee and I loved it! After a couple of years I became a qualified dental nurse. I felt that I could go further and the next step was to become a… View more
When you have a missing tooth, then a dental bridge may be used to restore the resulting gap. The dental bridge is basically a false tooth, beautifully created from porcelain that fills the gap and is supported by adjacent teeth or implants. Bridges are permanently fixed and cannot be taken out of your mouth… View more
“Oh No Not Dentures!” – For some people, having a denture can have a certain stigma associated with it. We have a picture in our mind of false teeth in a glass on the bed side table which was a common occurrence with our grandparents. This is no longer the case due to the advances in… View more
I never liked going to the dentist as a child, so becoming a dental nurse was the last job I ever thought I could see myself doing! Coming into the unknown environment of dental nursing was very nerve wracking but also quite exciting. My previous working background has always been taken over by horses –… View more
With the arrival of Claire our fabulous hygienist I felt it was only fitting to make my 5th blog on how to care for our teeth. I try to offer as much advice on looking after your teeth as I can in surgery but sometimes it can be information overload and having something to… View more
So the hard manual labour is complete and I ‘think’ the surgery is ready to open. I have one major test ahead of me, the “dreaded” CQC inspection. The CQC or Care Quality Commission is a “feared” name in the dental world. Everyone talks about it with all these scare stories of the inspectors… View more
So to the more present. After completing my vocation training my yearning to be with my family was growing ever stronger. I had spent nearly a decade apart from them and now I wanted more than ever to make up for lost time. I have two beautiful nephews who are only just starting out in… View more
Maun sits at the mouth of the Okavango Delta and to say it holds some big characters is an understatement. All I’ll say is if you ever go you’ll need a very open mind but. There were people there that for the first time in a long time took me in for no other reason… View more
People that know me well would tell you, hopefully, that I’m a modest individual that likes to do rather than tell. Despite my confident, outgoing exterior, I can be quite a private person so when I was asked to write a blog, primarily about myself, I was horrified. My first and no doubt biggest concern… View more
