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Teeth and Tarmac - again

Heres an unfortunate picture of a delightful young lady. Lets call her Lucy. She's eight years old and I bet she likes pink things.Lucy was at her dad's on Saturday. She tripped over and landed right on her teeth - just like the young lad I mentioned...

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Unsung Heroes #1: The Technician

The latest ten year survey of dental health in the UK shows what we all kind of know - more people are keeping their teeth for longer. Which is great if you're one of them.But if you're not one of those fortunate people and have missing teeth, what d...

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York Place Tips: Keeping your smile bright #1

Here's an admission - and I reckon most dentists do it too: I can't help but look at peoples teeth when I'm talking to them. And sometimes I can guess things very quickly about the person by what I see.Take yellowy brown, glossy but dull teeth in a y...

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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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Straight Teeth Without The Wires

Living and working in what I believe to be the most beautiful counties in the UK has its good sides . The best backyard ever (the Lake District ) is right outside the window, there are good schools for the kids and in 15 minutes we can be climbing a ...

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One of Those Lightbulb Moments: Whitening Teeth

You know when something happens and you've just got to shout about it? I think its just happened to me...Most people know that you can have your teeth whitened - its been around in various forms for about 20 years or so and like most things in life, ...

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Prevention Is Better Than Cure

As with most things in life, a stitch in time saves nine… We also know that whilst dental techniques are constantly improving you cant beat what mother nature gave you. So it makes sense to look after it, and here's a bit of basic but important advic...

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Whats your BPE?

I'd like to share a tale that might help save a lot of grief in the future. Its about periodontal (gum) disease. One of my personal nightmares (like the one about falling) is my teeth falling out - and I don't think I'm alone. Dental Hygiene Discover...

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Doing Hygiene The Right Way

Would You Like To Retire From Having Fillings? Would you like to be confident that you will keep your teeth for life? If the answer is yes, read on. I’m sure that you would accept that prevention is always better than a cure, and at York Place we are...

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