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Dental hygienist joins our team
We are delighted to announce that Louise O’Grady has joined the team here at Shelbourne. Louise is a very experienced dental hygienist and we are really excited to have her working here. Preventing problems before they occur is the key to your good dental health. Louise focuses on helping you take care of your smile. Louise will be commencing…
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Crooked teeth and an unhappy patient
Here is another interesting case I thought you might like to see. Here is the lady as she first presented This lady first came to see me a little under two years ago. She HATES her teeth. (her words, not mine.) She is 42 years of age and wanted my opinion on her smile. She was…
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Young Childrens’ Dental Health of No Importance
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” -Nelson Mandela, Pretoria, 1995. Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m angry. In case you think I’ve taken leave of my senses, let me explain my “provocative” headline. Someone, somewhere, in the Health Service Executive has decided that…
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Spending the day with Cliff Ruddle
“The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.” -Aristotle Keeping our skills up to date is really important in dentistry. What you learned 14 or 15 years ago in dental school soon gets overtaken by new…
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Troublesome Front Teeth – Part 2
Ok, so on to the second part of the story. For those of you that haven’t read the first part of this case, you might like to read it here. So at this point, I have now finished the root canal treatments in both upper front teeth. The patient has no more discomfort and the…
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Troublesome Front Teeth
Troublesome Front Teeth I thought it was high time I blew the dust off my keyboard and posted up another interesting case which I saw recently. There are two issues which I had to deal with here, so I thought it would be best to treat each ‘challenge’ as a separate blog article. Sooooo, this is…
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From Crowns to Implants: Why a Specialist Dentist?
“I’m a special one.” -José Mourinho (2004) Ok…. so we can’t provide José Mourinho, but today I would like to introduce you to our specialist dentist, prosthodontist Dr. Tom Canning. A prosthodontist is a qualified dentist who has trained…
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Dental Crowns: Get the Basics Right First.
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” -Henry Ford I completed this really interesting dental crown case last week. (Well, I hope I’ve completed it. More on that later!) This gentleman presented last year in pain and with two dark teeth at the front that looked like this: Fairly obvious discoloured front teeth. Both teeth…
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Trying to Avoid Root Canal
“Dude, this is a totally deep hole.” -Bill Preston, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) Root canal treatment (Removing a dead or dying nerve form a tooth) is something we try and avoid unless we have no choice. But this case certainly made…
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Win a Voucher for the Marker Hotel!
Last summer, this fabulous hotel opened its doors just up the road from us. One word…..cool! We can confirm it…..this place is amaaazing! Right slap bang in the middle of Grand Canal Square, next door to the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, The Marker Hotel is the perfect urban retreat for those of you that demand nothing…