Implant Surgical Guide

A surgical guide as the name suggests serves as a guide to place implants accurately in 3 dimensions i.e. bucco-lingual, messiah-distal and apiece-coronal. Here I am showing a simple surgical guide that has been produced from an initial wax up (there are more accurate guides available). It is constructed of hard acrylic and can also …

FDI – Implant Retained Dentures

Managing the edentulous patient can be at times, very difficult. Following extraction of the dentition bone is remodelled and resorbed, muscles and ligament insertions become closer to residual ridges. This can in turn lead to an unstable and unretentive denture due to a lack of bony support. When treatment planning for the edentulous patient, it …

Foundation in Implant Dentistry Part-1

February 2017. This was the first part of the FID course held annual by the ITI (International Team for Implantology) and Straumann. The course is being held at Crawley (quite a journey from Hereford) and was easily accessible. The first module focused on Assessment and Treatment planning in Implant Dentistry. By comparing implants to other …

Simple Composite Makes a Huge Difference

A simple composite restoration placed in the upper central incisor transforms a patients confidence in an instant.

Hereford Tooth Decay Worse in The West Midlands

Dental decay amongst five year old children is more prevalent in Herefordshire than any other county in the West Midlands. The Dental public Health Epidemiology Programme for England published in May 2016, show that 41.3% of five year old children in Herefordshire have had experience of or currently have dental decay. Compare that to our closest neighbours Worcester (27.3%) or Malvern Hills (17.7%) Shropshire (21.5%) then it is clear that Herefordshire is failing in the dental health of it’s children.

Dental Abscess – Don’t Risk Your Life

This is just an experience that I would like to share. Whilst I was working for an emergency dental service over a weekend, a patient attended with a “swelling.” Little did he know but this swelling was extremely dangerous and required urgent attention! The patient was not registered with a dentist, he had a fractured …

Dentistry and Diabetes – Andrew Farr Dentist

It is Diabetes Week from the 12th – 18th of June but what effect does it have for the dental team?

Eucalyptus Oil instead of Fluoride Toothpaste!

At Broad Street Dental Surgery we pride ourselves on prevention, oral hygiene, diet advise and fluoride advise. Today was just like a normal day at the surgery until the very last patient of the day was half way out the door, then just out of the blue did the old Columbo “Just one more thing Mr Farr” Mrs S. …

Denplan Excel and DEPPA

On the 5th January Broad Street Dental Surgery were accredited as a Denplan Excel dental practice. In this day and age of regulation, CQC and with an emphasis now strongly weighted on prevention and educating patients we felt that the Denplan Excel programme with it’s DEPPA assessment tool would suit the practice perfectly. The DEPPA …