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Portmore eZine CREATING BEAUTIFUL SMILES FOR LIFE
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A SMILE IS “ THE UNIVERSAL WELCOME. ” Max Eastman
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Did you know?
Welcome
The enamel on your toothis the hardest part of your body
Welcome to the May edition of our E-zine. This month we are heavily promoting our Fresh Breath Clinic, by creating awareness and helping patients to solve (usually very easily!) this embarrassing problem. There is no need to suffer in silence anymore, just give us a call and get booked in today. We are also finalising plans for our Ladies Day at Portmore which will be held on 11th June. We hope that you will support us again as this year we are raising money for Breast Cancer Care. Tickets are only £5, just pop into the practice or email me on nikki@portmoredental.co.uk to reserve yours today.
Click here for full details on our Ladies Day On the 7th May the Portmore Team are taking part in the Windsor Colour Obstacle Rush to raise money for Breast Cancer Care, if you would like to make a donation, please click here.
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BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
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NEWS & EVENTS
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FRESH BREATH CLINIC
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HYGIENE SPA Why a healthy diet is important for your teeth...
5 TEAM QUESTION: The Super Power I wish I had... 6 4 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ‘SMILE DESIGN’ AT PORTMORE
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NEWS We are delighted to announce that our Hygienist Sue, completed the London Marathon in a very respectable time of 5.38. Despite saying “never again”, Sue completed the 27 miles with a huge smile and just one tiny blister! She is an inspiration and the Portmore team are so proud of her achievement which saw her raise money for Whizz Kidz. We are happy to announce that we have a new team member! Adriana has joined Portmore as a Dental Nurse and is spending her first few weeks with us working in each surgery to experience how each dentist works. Please take time to stop and say ‘hello’ to Adriana if you see her at your next visit. New dental chairs are being installed at the practice as we speak. Joe and Alan from JD Dental are plumbing in state of the art ‘Fona’ chairs in our Therapy & Hygiene bays in May. The chairs will include intra-oral cameras so that the Therapists can show you ‘live on camera’ any gum issues that you may have and what we will do to help you resolve them.
Events
6 May 16 – Portmore team handing our FREE apples in Weybridge as part of healthy living campaign th
7th May 16 - Portmore Team - Windsor Colour Rush for Breast Cancer Care 3rd June 16 - Portmore ‘girls night out’ in Weybridge - Come and say hello if you spot us!
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11th June 16 - “Ladies Day” - Year 2 of this great event for our lovely ladies & their friends. 22nd June 16 – Cosmetic & Implant Dentistry information evening 5pm - 8pm 15th July 16 - Portmore ‘Team Day’ – event to be announced! 20th July 16 - Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry Information evening – 5pm - 8pm 7th September 2016 - Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry Information evening – 5pm - 8pm
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Did you know?
The amount of saliva you produce in a lifetime is enough to fill two
Fresh Breath Clinic
swimming pools!
Bad breath is a common problem that can affect anyone at any age and yet there is still a real ‘taboo’ around the subject, when there really needn’t be. Our state of the art ‘Fresh Breath Clinic’ means that patients who are concerned about their ‘less than fresh’ breath can come along to get tested & treated in a friendly and positive environment. What We Do? – We get to the root of the problem and give you your confidence back, its that simple Your initial visit to the Fresh Breath Clinic is an extensive 1-hour appointment where you will receive: • Consultation, assessment and treatment plan • Peace of mind and confidence in knowing that we can treat your problem • A professional Scale & Polish – (further visits may be recommended dependent on diagnosis) • Tongue cleaning using specialized techniques & mouthwashes • Bespoke oral hygiene education –showing you how to care for your mouth & oral health for the long-term • Diet analysis • Social history analysis • Help with smoking cessation • Medical history • Halimeter test – Oral malodour testing machine • Bacterial evaluation • Fresh Breath Bag – to include bespoke floss, interdental brushes, specialised mouth wash, chewing gum and leaflets.
Your investment in Fresh Breath is just £99! What are you waiting for? Give us a call and book in today
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HYGIENE
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WHY A HEALTHY DIET IS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR TEETH‌ Did you know that eating very acidic foods on a regular basis can have a negative impact on your teeth? Here at Portmore we often see younger patients for routine oral health checks and spend a lot of time educating them and their parents about the impact of diet on their oral health. Supermarket shelves can be so confusing these days and there are so many mixed messages in the media about what we should/shouldn’t eat for our health. As a quick and easy reference, we have put some of this content into an infographic.
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TEAM Question The Super Power I wish I had…….
Dayle Therapist Teleportation…… so that I could travel anywhere in a flash!!
Liz Implant Nurse To travel at the speed of light! I’d be able to see my mum family and friends up north whenever I wanted without having to drive 3 and a half hours!
Lara Dentist The Super Power I wish I had is time travel so I can go back in time and experience history first hand.
John Cosmetic & Restorative Dentist The ability to dispense universal common sense so that human beings realised that waging war is futile.
Katie Cosmetic Nurse The ability to read minds just so I could be nosey
Mandy Receptionist Is to hear what other people are thinking because who the hell knows what men are thinking most of the time!
Mel Receptionist The Super Power I wish I had is to be in two places at once because I can then go to work everyday and see my friends but also have the life as if I were retired.
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4 things you need to know about ‘Smile Design’ at Portmore Here at Portmore Dental we offer patients smile makeovers that include treatments such as veneers, teeth whitening, same day white teeth, crowns, bridges, short-term adult orthodontics and dental implants. You may have heard of some of these before and we would be happy to explain how they work in detail at your next appointment.
These systems can also be used with other methods of smile enhancement to provide a straighter basis to work from. For example, veneers or composite fillings can then be used to make the final perfections to a smile. Veneers are very thin layers of porcelain that fit over the front of the tooth, a bit like a false fingernail. Composite is a dental material that can be used to build up teeth in a similar way. Both Here are four things we would like you to know treatments can be used where gaps need to be closed or if a tooth has been broken. We also about smile makeovers: use either Home Whitening or Zoom! In surgery tooth whitening in conjunction with 1. Improving your smile Dentists use the term ‘smile design’ to describe most treatments because it gives that extra the process of creating the smile that you enhanced and healthy looking edge to any smile. dream of. This is because there are various elements that come into play with an enhanced 3. The whole face smile, it’s not just all about looks. It’s a very Sometimes a new smile can highlight other clever process that takes into consideration the areas of the face that could use a little extra aesthetics and symmetry of the whole face in help. It may be the case that, now the order to provide balance and harmony as a discoloured or wonky teeth that previously whole. Not only that, there are also factors like caught your eye have been given a new lease of function that have to come into play; what’s the life, you’re noticing other things instead. For point of beautiful looking teeth that can’t chew example, lines around the mouth may become more obvious now your eye isn’t drawn to your or bite properly? teeth. These can be rectified too, using 2. Techniques used Smile design can incorporate a number of wrinkle-smoothing techniques in order to achieve your goal. This treatment or fillers can include short-term orthodontics to move to help given a youthful the teeth into the desired position in a relatively more to quick period of time. There are many different appearance your brands available for this such as Invisalign and match Six Month Smiles both of which are so discreet dazzling new smile. they are almost invisible. 6
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Did you know?
Over the course of your life, you will spend about 38 days brushing your teeth
4. Confidence boost Being able to smile genuinely without feeling conscious can do wonders for your self-esteem. This will impact on all areas of your life, from having more confidence at work to being able to relax more in social settings and enjoy yourself. At Portmore Dental we have helped many patients with smile makeovers, click here to see some of our testimonials.
John’s path of continued learning has led him to attend The Advanced Aesthetics course in New York and Florida where he reached Masters level in March 2006. John’s other smile enhancement areas of special interest are Computer –Aided Design techniques, milled aesthetic crowns and occlusion.
Our team members Drs, Eben Van der Walt, John Brazier, Johann Styger and Lara Kriek have trained and qualified to deliver smile makeover treatment to a high standard at Portmore Dental. Lara is the newest member of our team and has won multiple clinical and academic awards, Eben has vast experience in the most including an award from the Academy of up-to-date smile enhancement techniques and Operative Dentistry for consistent excellence has attended many courses in the USA on smile in clinical dentistry. –makeover procedures. Starting in 2005 Eben At the present time Lara is studying for a attended the Aesthetic Advantage Program Master’s Degree in Aesthetic and Restorative based at the University of New York and Dentistry and has also gained further achieved Masters Level in Aesthetic Dentistry qualifications in short-term adult orthodontics. only two years later in 2007. Subsequently Eben was invited into the If you have any questions about having a Aesthetic Alumni in Palm Beach, Florida and smile makeover, be sure to book an also be appointed as an instructor to Aesthetic appointment with us today to discuss your Advantage students who attend courses at options and payment plans. Drop into the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital and the Royal practice or call us on 01932 855 011. College of Surgeons. Implants
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