Dentures Provided by the NHS Dentures can be provided on the NHS as long as they are deemed clinically necessary to secure oral health. It is the dentist who decides whether they are deemed clinically necessary to secure oral health. Dentures come under the NHS Band three treatment which currently is £269.30. In addition, any …
When considering your missing back teeth replacement on the NHS, there are two things to be aware about. Firstly, a decision has to be made if the teeth that are missing should be replaced or not. A dentist may decide to not replace missing back teeth on the NHS as they are not causing any …
Bone Graft For Dental Implants You may be contemplating having dental implant treatment done, or you may even be having it soon and the dentist or the implantologist may have suggested that you will need to have a bone graft in conjunction with the treatment. So the question you should be asking is, do I …
Updated 07.01.19 We probably get in the region of 20 to 30 patients every month asking if they need to have their wisdom teeth removed. Wisdom teeth usually come through from the age of 18 up to about 21 or 22 years of age, they are the last permanent molars at the back of your …
Updated: Feb 2019 So you’ve been told that you need a dental implant or dental implants, but you might be wondering do I really need to have them, and are there any alternatives which may be nearly as good or even better? We’re going to look at the four options today as alternatives to dental …
Our topic for today is smoking and mouth cancer. Updated: 07/01/2019 Mouth cancer is also known as oral cancer, or under different names such as ‘squamous cell carcinoma’, depending on the cells that it affects. For example, the saliva glands: mouth cancer commonly affects the tongue, however other areas that can also be affected are …
10 Complications Following the Extraction of Wisdom Teeth Complications after ordering wisdom teeth extractions are fairly common. Some complications are fairly minor, however, others can be more serious with some being permanent and even life-threatening. So here is a list of the ten most common complications following from ordering wisdom tooth extractions. Number one: bleeding …
Updated: December 2018 Problems with impacted wisdom teeth relate to infection of the Operculum Periconitis – decay in the wisdom tooth, decay in the adjacent teeth, food packing and gum disease. Let’s look at each of these problems that can occur with impacted wisdom teeth in turn. Infection of the Operculum As mentioned previously, the …