Swords Orthodontics arranged a team building event in June 2014, which was attended by dentists and teams from 4 local practices. Here's a video of the some of the day's highlights.
Normally we work on helping patients smile, but it was a bit of a change to make dentists, dental hygienists and dental nurses smile. It was definitely a new thing to hear them shriek! But everyone kept going and had a great time. We'll be back to normal dental activities on Monday morning.
I had a patient come in this afternoon for an appointment that was marked in the diary as “retainer review”.
When I opened up his notes, it turned out that his orthodontic treatment finished over 3 years ago and we hadn’t seen him in almost 3 years. At that stage we had made him a spare retainer and he never came back to us to have it fitted.
When he came in, I said “so we haven’t seen you in nearly 3 years.”
“Yeah, I know. Sorry about that. Really busy with the leaving cert and that sort of thing,” he said. He explained that his retainer was ...
I had a patient with neurosensory issues in last week. We were planning to put the orthodontic braces on his teeth - we call that process "bonding" or a "bond-up".
Kid: What are you going to do to me today?
Me: Stick the braces on your teeth.
Is this going to hurt?
Me or you?
Me! Is it going to hurt me?
No, it's not going to hurt. You're going to have to have your mouth open for a while and your jaw muscles will feel a bit stretched, but it's not going to hurt. It's not like standing on Lego.
I'm immune to Lego.
Well, you can't argue with that.
There are many hard, crunchy, sticky and chewy food to avoid with braces on as they can cause parts of the brace to break and come off.
These foods include: