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Important Teeth Whitening Update
Legislation regarding Teeth Whitening has been enacted in Ireland and comes into force in just a few weeks time… 31st October 2012. This important legislation finally brings certainty in regulating the sourcing and use of tooth whitening products. The legislation is required to give effect to an amended EU Council directive (Council Directive 2011/84/EU. Tooth…
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Keeping Your Child’s Mouth Healthy
The beginning of a young person’s life is an incredibly important period, one which often heavily influences the kind of person your child will grow up to be. As a parent, it’s your job to teach your child a number of skills and habits that he / she needs in order to live a long,…
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Time For A Spring Clean
For a limited time only, we’ve decided to run a special offer for both new and existing patients. For just €299, we will give your teeth a professional cleaning and polishing and follow up with a course of Teeth Whitening. This includes pre and post operative photographs so you can see just how much brighter…
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New Year’s Resolutions
Let’s be honest….most of us make a New Year’s resolution that never makes it past the second week of January. New Year’s resolutions can be as easy or as hard as you make them. This year, why not set some reasonable goals and do something easy and healthy at the same time. Setting a goal of…
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Dental Fear and Anxiety
For many people, a trip to the dentist is one of the greatest fears out there. Images of the dreaded dental chair, dentist with mask on, drill in hand, ready for action are quite frankly less than pleasant and enough to put many off a visit to have their teeth checked. Genuine ‘Dental Anxiety‘ which…
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Stuffing Your Face at Halloween
At Halloween, we all know that many kids will probably return home with bags full of nuts, sweets and chocolate from trick or treating. As a parent, should you let them immediately stuff themselves and get it out of their system? Shelbourne Clinic Dentist, Dr. Mark Kelly thinks it actually might not be such a…
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New Teeth Whitening Regulations
New EU regulations were brought into force this week which control the use of a chemical used in tooth whitening products. These regulations are warmly welcomed by everyone here at Shelbourne Dental Clinic and indeed by the entire dental profession in Ireland. The new European Council directive is concerned with the regulation of the use…
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Teeth Whitening Advice for this summer
In March of this year, the General Dental Council in the UK (the governing body for dental professionals) successfully prosecuted a non-registered dental professional for performing tooth whitening. This ruling is likely to cause chaos and confusion amongst hundreds of unregulated, unlicensed beauty salons across the UK and Ireland, not to mention concern from patients…
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Jennifer Aniston’s Dentist plays the guitar to her!
Actress Jennifer Aniston is playing a dentist, Dr Julia Harris DDS, who sexually harasses her employees in her latest film, Horrible Bosses. And in a recent interview in the US, she spills the beans about the dentist she visits in real life. He plays guitar for his patients, including her! www.okmagazine.com reports: ‘As she promoted…
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Summertime Smiling
As ‘Summer 2011’ is now upon us, we thought we’d share a few tips and tricks to keep your teeth and gums in perfect condition when enjoying the long warm days (we hope!), trips to the seaside, outdoor BBQs etc.. During the summer holidays, we all actually tend to snack a little more on sugary,…