Our patients are healthy!

86% of my patients last month didn’t need any further treatment because they are healthy!
I have always tried to make my practice truly preventive. I believe that most (if not all) people do actually want to be healthy. I think if you have the knowledge to make healthy choices you are more likely to make them, which is why we spend so much of our time helping to give you the knowledge and skills to make the healthy choices. The fact that we have such a high level of healthy patients suggests it is working.
Knowledge about what good choices are for a healthy body is not always as clear. We are bombarded by lots of health messages, a lot of which are from advertising and aimed not necessarily at promoting health but at increasing sales of a particular product. Often the messages are designed to imply healthier messages than are really there. For example squash that is ‘no added sugar’ – a bugbear of mine. The reason it is no added sugar is because by the process of using the juice means it has enough sugar in it without adding any to make it sweet (and therefore enough to able to decay the teeth).
My aim is to help you cut through this misinformation so you know the real health message. We all make choices about what we do with our time, what we spend our money on, and how we look after ourselves. Sometimes these are best for health and sometimes not so great. Life circumstances have a lot to do with how much freedom we feel we have to make these choices. I feel if you have the knowledge you can choose what you want to do for your mouth. You may not do all of it right now but you know what to do for health and you are more likely to choose this in the future.
I don’t believe in being dogmatic, saying you should never have chocolate for example, it’s all about balance. Often it’s about a small change – a substitute of something different, or changing the timing of what you eat for example rather than major changes. I am not asking you to do something that will have a major impact on your lifestyle, but could have a major impact on your health.
I hope that if you follow our message, you will be healthier, keep teeth for life and need less work doing. This isn’t the best business plan for me, but hopefully if you like what we do you will tell your friends about us and that will keep new people joining us to keep me busy. This will keep the business strong (as well as your teeth).