I did an adjustment for a patient’s braces today.
He’s 67.
I don’t think he’s my oldest patient ever but I think he’s the oldest currently in treatment with me (though he’ll be finishing soon, I expect).
Basically if you have healthy teeth and gums and want something fixed that needs orthodontics, we’d be happy to do it. If the teeth and gums aren’t healthy then we’ll advise what needs to be done and work with your dentist to achieve the best outcome.
About 1/3 of my patients are adults.
Had a patient today who come back for new retainers 10 years after the end of her treatment.
Her lower retainer was cracked but otherwise both upper and lower were in remarkably good condition.
The alignment of her teeth had maintained nicely, I was delighted with this and it would be great if we could get some photos to show
So we’ll make her new retainers. We have a scanner here, so there was no moulding of her teeth needed to make the retainers, and we’ll fit them soon.
The thing is… her teeth were so straight, and ...
I was sad to hear about Glen Hansard’s death a couple of weeks ago. I saw The Frames a surprising number of times for someone who never went to see The Frames. They seemed to be on so many bills that I found myself at but I wasn’t really a ...
It was a bit of a Good News, Bad News appointment.
I was fitting the replacement brace for the guy that lost his brace while out for a walk. This was half of a brace system called a “twin block” where there is one brace on the top jaw and one on the lower. He’d lost the lower one and we had a replacement made. I had asked him to continue to wear the upper brace in the meantime. When he came in, his mum said
“well we have a bit of news with the upper brace. Show Stephen the brace…”
The patient duly takes out the ...