If you watched the recently finished series 4 of Love/Hate on RTE recently, you will be familiar with Andrew, the dentist who is a little, shall we say, “crown happy”. Basically every problem needed to be treated by crowning the tooth, thus leaving our friend Andrew making
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The Dark Tooth… The “dark tooth”…. something that I see pretty much every day of the week here at Shelbourne Dental Clinic. Some people are very upset by it; others don’t even notice (until I point it out to them during their check-up). Of course, there are
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“Don’t just do something, stand there!” -White Rabbit, Alice in Wonderland (1951) I was reminded last week of something one of my clinical instructors from Dublin Dental School used to say. (How long ago?… well…let’s just say I had a lot less grey hair back then!!) When
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“Why do I need dental X-rays?” Sometimes a patient, particularly a new patient, will ask me this question. From their point of view it’s perfectly understandable. After all, if there’s no pain, and nothing looks wrong, then why take x-rays? It’s certainly true that we don’t take x-rays out of
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What is bad breath and what causes it? There are several names for bad breath. Some people call it “Morning Breath” – dentists and doctors tend to give it it’s clinical name: Halitosis. Bad breath isn’t in itself an actual problem, but we are all well aware
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