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York Place Tips: Painless injections

The Top Thing that patients tell me they are afraid of when at the dentist is having an injection to make things go numb. We all know that the truth is there's no choice. The good news however is that injections work really well and that dental care ...
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York Place Tips: Spit - Don't Rinse!

Most people use toothpaste when they clean their teeth (you'd be surprised how many don't......).Most people are aware that there's usually some fluoride in there, along with little cleaning granules and some minty flavour.Most toothpastes even have ...
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The Power of Plastic...

Over the years, I've found that most people are genuinely surprised at what a dentist can do for them - right when they don't expect it. At events where maybe we've been promoting our more "headline" services - such as tooth whitening and invisible b...
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Teeth and tarmac don't mix....

A young lad , lets call him Zak, came in as an emergency with his mum this afternoon. Zak’s eleven, and he’d taken a flyer over a skipping rope at dinnertime. Sadly, the inevitable impact was right on the end of one of his top front adult teeth, and ...
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Throwing the (Forests) out with the Bathwater

A short one from the heart today. Like millions of the population I've spent many happy days mucking round in forests.I grew up just over the water from the Forest of Dean and we walked, camped, caravanned, climbed (yes - there are rocks there too) a...
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Don't do this at home...

Most of my friends and colleagues know that I've been a volunteer member of Cockermouth Mountain Rescue Team for many years. All team members have to be trained appropriately and must keep their skills up to date. As a team, we go out and practice tw...
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Happy Christmas

A big thank you from me to everyone who has worked with us, been with us as a patient or a friend, traded with us, helped us, supported us. to my wonderful team at York Place - thank you, theres no way that we could have done
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Advent Smiles - an offer for you!

York Place Dental is doing its bit to brighten the winter mood and raise a few smiles! For each day of advent, we are offering one person whiter teeth for Christmas at a half price.That means:Home whitening for only £180...Power Whitening from only £...
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Our Cockermouth flood story.wmv

Whilst I don't think its healthy to dwell on the downsides in life, I came upon this short film by Chris Freer today. It's almost exactly a year since my home town was flooded so dramatically, and as a member of Cockermouth Mountain rescue team I was...
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Are you interested in sailing?

A different story this time - and its a positive sort of feel good non dental one one - so stay with me.I've been a frustrated sailor - i.e. I cant do it, but want to do it - for 45 years, and finally this year I got off my rear end and did what I'd ...
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