Why should I have a dental health check?
15 June 2016We are all very busy these days so why should we make time to have a dental health check? Well there are many benefits to having one: Tooth decay- a dentist can pick up decay before much damage has occurred, before you will notice anything is different. Any dental work, even with today’s technology, is…
Read more »Running and Oral Health
25 April 2016Spring is here your thoughts may turn to getting fitter, don’t risk damage to your teeth in the process! Many of the energy drinks and gels you may use to fuel your muscles have incredibly high levels of sugar so by using them you are at higher risk of tooth decay. Apart from the sugar…
Read more »Using Chewing Gum Shown to help prevent tooth decay in Children
17 March 2016A new study, published in the British Dental Journal, has revealed that up to £8.2 million of costs to the NHS –could be saved if twelve year olds across the UK were to increase their chewing of sugar free gum as part of a good oral health routine to help prevent tooth decay. With the…
Read more »Having Gum Disease Increases Your Breast Cancer Risk
4 February 2016New research has suggested that postmenopausal women who suffer from gum disease are at a significantly increased risk of developing breast cancer. The study looked at the cases of breast cancer in more than seventy thousand women over almost seven years and identified those that had gum disease, were fourteen per cent more likely to…
Read more »Sharon’s Blog. Food – what’s good and bad
10 December 2015At Lindley Dental we advise our patients on how their food choices can affect their oral health. Here are some things to look out for. Top teeth enemies Sugar Sugar is one of the main risks to our oral health can be found most commonly in sweets, pastries, cakes, biscuits, fizzy drinks and chocolate. Sugar…
Read more »Mouth Cancer Action Month November 2015
2 November 2015What is mouth cancer? It is an abnormal group of cells which develops in the mouth, including the lips, the surface of the tongue, the roof and the floor of your mouth. It can also develop in the tonsils, salivary glands and the beginning of the throat. Which are the symptoms? mouth ulcers that do…
Read more »Disruption to traffic
9 October 2015We would like to inform all our visitors that there may be some parking and traffic disruption on and around New Hey Road due to Northern Gas Networks starting essential works. The work is planned on the 5th of October for 2 weeks. Please look for further parking on Reinwood Road and Wellfield Road. We…
Read more »Dental Trauma
14 September 2015So now that the kids are back at school you are hopefully into some sort of routine. If your child has taken up a new sport this term do they need a mouth guard? About one in five UK children will damage their front teeth. Sports injuries are common ages 8 – 13 years. A well fitting guard will…
Read more »Why choose professional tooth whitening?
20 August 2015Now as a dentist you wouldn’t ask me to dye your eyelashes or do you a pedicure would you? So why do people have their teeth whitening by a beauty therapist? What many people don’t realise, including some of the therapists, is that tooth whitening is the practice of dentistry and so can only be…
Read more »Have you done a DEPPA score yet?
22 June 2015At Lindley dental we are committed to continuous improvement. To help us with this we are a Denplan Excel practice. To have this accreditation we have to exceed standard requirements of Dental Practices and continually review what we do. As an Excel practice we can now use Denplan’s on-line patient oral health risk assessment tool-DEPPA….
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