Happy New Year everyone! We hope you all had a great Christmas break and are all set for the year ahead. We just wanted to post this quick note to show you what Santa left for our patients to play with in the waiting room….. …..some gorgeous,
Read more →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
Read more →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
Read more →“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
Read more →“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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