News from Synergy Dental Care: Don’t let Easter ruin your teeth

News from Synergy Dental Care: Don’t let Easter ruin your teeth: Easter has always been a time to celebrate with family and friends. Originally involving the trading of eggs painted in bright colours,...

Don’t let Easter ruin your teeth

Easter has always been a time to celebrate with family and friends. Originally involving the trading of eggs painted in bright colours, this tradition has evolved into a chance to gorge on something less healthy - the chocolate Easter egg.

While it’s an exciting time for children, Easter egg hunts and their sugary prizes can spell disaster for their teeth. So, how can you make sure you protect your child’s teeth without ruining their fun?

Here at Synergy Dental Care, Dr. Richard Armishaw offers some helpful tips on ensuring your kid’s teeth remain in great shape over the Easter period - no matter how many chocolate eggs they munch their way through!

According to Richard, children can still enjoy the abundance of Easter confectionary without running the risk of damaging their smiles. The trick is to encourage them to eat sweets at the end of a meal, rather than constantly nibbling throughout the day: “Contrary to popular belief, frequent eating of sugary food and drinks is far worse for the teeth than the volume children actually eat. After eating sugar, teeth are under acid attack for up to an hour, so if you can reduce the number of occasions your child eats sugar throughout the day, you also limit the amount of time that their teeth are susceptible. This is really important over Easter when children eat more sugary foods than normal.”

A good tip to help manage sweets and chocolates is to put them in a special box or tin and allow your children to choose some to eat at the end of a meal. During Easter, introduce sweets at mealtimes only, with perhaps one additional snack. Your child’s teeth will be able to withstand those four attacks of sugar and acid, and after cleaning their teeth before bed you can also go to sleep with a clear conscience!

Be aware of danger factors as children naturally prefer sweet food, the challenge for parents is to balance giving them the food they love while at the same time looking out for their teeth and gums.

Richard reminds parents that there is no shame in letting the kids have a little of what they fancy at Easter: “Parents simply need to be aware of the danger factors for teeth - sugar and acid.

Knowing how to combat them means that foods containing sugar do not need to be avoided altogether.”

Richard  suggests using the Easter school holidays as a good time to brush up on children’s teeth care habits: “School holidays give parents a bit more time to check that children are brushing their teeth properly. Dentists recommend children brush their teeth using fluoride toothpaste for two minutes once in the morning and once at night. “I’d also recommend that you encourage your children to spit rather than rinse. Rinsing after brushing reduces the effectiveness of fluoride, so don’t rinse it all away.

“Another fun way of encouraging children to brush their teeth properly is to give them plaque-disclosing tablets. These turn the mouth dark blue in areas where there’s plaque left and show you where you need to brush more. These are available from dentists and chemists and are less than £2 for a packet.”

If you need guidance on helping your children to brush their teeth correctly then why not pop along to the Synergy Dental Care over the school holiday, where our Arina our Dental Therapist will be happy to show your kids brushing techniques.

COFFEE & CAKE DAY IN AID OF HELP FOR HEROES

Here at Synergy we’ll be popping on our pinnies and getting out the recipe books again in time for another great ‘Coffee & Cake Day’ on April 23rd in aid of the wonderful Help for Heroes charity.

It’s open to everyone – patients and non-patients alike – and every penny raised from your generous donations will help support service men and women who have suffered life-changing injuries.

There’ll be a mouth-watering array of treats available on the day, including our now famous coffee cake, ginger cake, chocolate cake and cupcakes. Yummy!

There will also be a chance for you to meet the Synergy team as you relax with a coffee in the informal surroundings of our Tunstall Road, Biddulph, practice.

Why not bring a friend too? The event runs all day and you’ll be making a valuable contribution to a very worthwhile cause.

So please support us on Tuesday April 23rd for our big charity event of the year. It’s a piece of cake!

 

Synergy Dental Care Scoop Top Customer Service Award

At Synergy Dental Care we are all thrilled to have been awarded a top industry customer service award this week, based on feedback from WhatClinic.com customers over a twelve month period.  Only clinics that have an excellent record of service and superior satisfaction record are awarded the annual title of WhatClinic.com Customer Service Award Winner. Customers rated clinics based on how well the clinic treated them, how quickly they were contacted and seen, and how happy they were with the treatment.

We are delighted that our clients have been so positive in their feedback.  We do put a lot of effort in to ensuring that our patients receive the best possible care, from the moment they pick up the phone, not just when they come to see us. We are pleased that this has been recognised by WhatClinic.com.

Feedback from our patients tells us that they appreciate our friendly approach and that we don’t ‘look, sound, feel or smell like’ any other dental practice they have visited. We are extremely proud that our approach to customer care is appreciated by our patients and are grateful to receive this endorsement of our efforts.

A good reason to smile

Enjoy the view from Synergy Dental Care.

We are all set for a busy week at Synergy Dental Care. The sun is shining and we are all feeling happier and more productive because of it.

Have you ever wondered why this is?

Well apparently sunshine releases Endorphins, which are a group of peptide hormones that occur naturally in the brain that, when released, increase your body's threshold for pain and affect the way you feel emotionally. Endorphins are chemically very much like morphine. There are a few things you can do to possibly release endorphins and increase your mood.

·         Enjoy the sunshine

·         Smile

·         Laugh

·         Exercise

At the practice, we are a happy bunch and spend most of our time, smiling and laughing; although for now exercise will have to wait (sorry Richard), Now the sun is shining, it will be lunch on the patio again.

Have a fantastic week everyone and remember having a positive attitude may not solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth it!

One of the benefits of having a late night is that the Team get to finish early the following day. Consequently we were all out enjoying the sunshine yesterday.

Angie chose to relax in the garden with a beer, Chloe spent time with a friend, Lesley and her boys took the dog for a walk and Richard, well he decided to do a 10 mile run up Mow Cop!

As for Alex, well she was on a training course but spent last night making cupcakes with her Granddad. Thanks Alex they were yummy!

Tooth Whitening

Most people we speak to are completely unaware that Tooth Whitening is a dental treatment and should only be carried out by dental professionals. They are often lulled into beauty salon's by low priced tooth whitening offers without realisi...ng the potential dangers.

In fact at the Face & Beauty Show at the NEC recently we witnessed lines of people having their teeth whitened simultaneously and most of the company reps we spoke to couldn't tell us what whitening agents their gel's contained! Pretty scarey stuff!

At Synergy Dental Care we offer Zoom Advanced Power Whitening Treatment, this is a premium product that is supplied only to Dentists and treatment is carried out by our Dental Professionals.

If you or anyone you know is considering Tooth Whitening please advise them to speak to us or any other dentist.http://www.dentistry.co.uk/news/5133-Dentists+do+battle+against+whitening+cowboys