You have the power to bring confidence to your patients in 2018 by recommending CB12.

Many people lose their self-esteem either worrying about their breath or suffering with the embarrassment of oral malodour. But a daily shot of CB12 mouth rinse could change their lives for the better.

CB12 mouth rinse works instantly by targeting and neutralising the volatile sulphur compounds that cause unpleasant breath. The active ingredients in CB12 also chemically bind to the tissues in the oral cavity to prevent bad breath for up to 12 hours.

CB12 contains 0.05% sodium fluoride to further encourage good oral health, and is available in mint menthol and mild mint menthol flavours to give your patients fresh breath confidence every day.

CB12 also offer sugar-free Boost chewing gum, with a pleasant mint flavour that can be used to boost breath confidence anywhere.

The power is in your hands – help your patients to make a new start this New Year and by recommending CB12. To become a stockist or to receive samples contact the team now.

For more information about CB12 and how it could benefit your patients, please visit www.cb12.co.uk

“I find that using the Astringent Retraction Paste from 3M Oral Care creates a great environment for scanning and impression taking.”

Dr Andrew Sharpe from Dental Smiles Takeley shares his experience of using the product in everyday practice.

“Easy to use and apply, it opens the sulcus space effectively and it is very gentle for maximum patient comfort. It also enables a quick and long-lasting haemostasis without soft tissue trauma and very rarely causes any bleeding upon removal.

“The Astringent Retraction Paste also allows for a simple workflow, requiring fewer steps than retraction cord. This is a fantastic product – I always keep it in stock and certainly recommend it to other clinicians.”

For more information, call 0845 602 5094 or visit www.3m.co.uk/oralcare

World renowned, W&H offers dental practices the new Lisa steriliser with Class B automatic cycles, from 13 minutes for unwrapped instruments and a 30-minute fast cycle for dental handpieces. The Lisa offers state of the art technology with ultimate connectivity.

The modern and practical Lisa features a user-friendly touch screen and menu structure with intuitive icons, which supports easy navigation and makes your daily work easier, faster and more efficient.

The innovative Eco Dry technology allows precise management of B-cycle steam sterilisation for an average load, plus it adapts the drying time to the mass of the load, reducing cycle time, increasing the life span of your instruments and optimising energy consumption.

The new Lisa provides a comprehensive traceability system customised to your needs, including a high capacity data logger, user identification and load release conformation. You can also benefit from the unique mobile app, which offers additional backup, real time remote monitoring, barcode scanner and user management.

Contact the knowledgeable and friendly team at W&H today to find out how the new Lisa steriliser could help your practice.

To find out more visit www.wh.com/en_uk, call 01727 874990 or email office.uk@wh.com

As a result of increased patient demand, more practices are now providing implant dentistry than ever before. Major advancements in research and development, as well as technology, materials, dental implant designs and surgical techniques that have made implant surgery safer and more predicable. Consistently high levels of growth have been predicted in the dental implant market and overall, the future for an implant dentist is extremely favourable.
Nevertheless, an upward trend has also been observed in the number of claims and complaints involving dental implant treatment over recent years, and there is still the age-old problem of unrealistic patient expectations to contend with.

Many individuals still regard dental implant therapy as the ultimate solution, devised to prevent any further dental problems. They fully expect implants to be successful, often without realising their responsibilities in terms of oral hygiene and long-term maintenance. Clinicians must ensure that patients understand the risks of implant surgery including nerve injury, to gain fully informed consent but also, practitioners that place dental implants need to conduct comprehensive pre-operative treatment planning and provide appropriate post-operative monitoring and on-going maintenance therapy.

Patient selection of course, remains crucial and practitioners need to manage expectations carefully. Unfortunately, some patients are still unaware that just like natural teeth, dental implants can still become affected by plaque. Individuals must be committed to fastidious levels of oral hygiene to successfully prevent bacterial contamination and maintain the health of the gingiva and subgingival areas. Clinicians must explain to patients that the connective tissue fibres surrounding dental implants are susceptible to plaque accumulation. If these deposits are not adequately cleared away, irritation and inflammation of the soft tissues can develop, which can lead to peri-implant disease and possibly implant failure.

Along with inadequate oral hygiene, immunosuppression, poorly controlled diabetes and smoking have the potential to negatively affect healing times and the success of dental implant surgery. In addition, patients with a history of periodontitis are most vulnerable to biological complications including peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis and implant survival rates may be lower in these patients. As clinicians are well aware, every case is different and can present a wide range of variables, some of which may require advanced surgical preparation, enhancement, grafts or augmentation prior to implant placement. In addition, there are some patients that experience recurrent complications that need specialised surgery or attention to reach a feasible, lasting solution.

With this in mind, a successful result almost always relies on a team of dental professionals with the specific skills, experience and technology needed, to plan and execute the most suitable treatment pathways and aftercare procedures. Understandably, not every practice has these facilities or resources available in house but by forming a professional partnership with a centre of dental excellence such as the London Smile Clinic, the abilities of the dental team can be expanded.

The London Smile Clinic is a referral centre with a team of highly qualified and experienced clinicians available to support general dentists and their patients. Using state of the art technology, Implant Surgeon, Zaki Kanaan and other specialist dental professionals can take on complex cases and work collaboratively as part of your team. Practitioners can refer all or just part(s) of the treatment to the London Smile Clinic but most importantly, referring dentists are kept fully informed throughout all procedures and patients are always returned to their dentist for on-going, continuing care.

With a streamlined route to the advanced technology, skills and support of referral centre, you can enhance your provision of care, outcomes and levels of patient satisfaction.

For more information, please contact 020 7255 2559 or
visit www.londonsmile.co.uk/refer

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David Gibson, Eschmann’s Marketing Manager reviews the main areas of consideration when redesigning a decontamination room or area.

When it comes to infection control and prevention the journey is just as, if not more important than the destination itself. How you choose to get there – in other words how you ensure complete compliance – is ultimately up to you, but there are a few things you should know if you want your expedition to go as smoothly as possible.

First off, don’t underestimate the importance of meticulous planning and preparation. If you were arranging a trip you wouldn’t leave your transport until the last minute, would you? Nor would you choose to go the long way round or walk instead of taking the car, so why wouldn’t you plan your decontamination room or area to the letter?

That’s not to say that there aren’t limitations when setting up a dental practice, especially if the surgeries are located within converted domestic buildings with often significant logistical constraints. Nevertheless, if there is an opportunity to redesign or plan to the ideal gold standard of a two-room approach it should be made the most of. Not just for practicality purposes, though there can be no doubt that the two-room layout can help to streamline workflow and improve efficiency, but because this degree of separation helps reduce the risk of cross-contamination to the lowest level. Quite simply, it is the most reliable and thorough setup – one that illustrates a true commitment to health and safety.

Where a dedicated side-by-side two-room solution of one ‘clean’ and one ‘dirty’ isn’t feasible there are two alternative options: single room decontamination or an in-surgery solution. Of these, the use of a single dedicated room always ranks as the preferred option, though it is crucial that a thorough flow strategy from dirty to clean is implemented at all times by all members of the team. Altogether, there are a lot of aspects to take on board, but just like there are maps and train journey planners to help you organise the best route for your travels, there are suggestions on how best to design each layout available within the HTM 01-05 document.

However you choose to do it, there are a number of elements that you should incorporate into the design to minimise cross contamination. These key design points are:

• Designate an area of benching to be used exclusively to receive contaminated instruments.
• Install the washer disinfector and/or washing and rinsing sinks or separate bowls within a single sink unit adjacent to the receiving area.
• Where an ultrasonic cleaner is used have it installed adjacent to the rinsing sink/bowl but separated from the receiving area.
• Have separate cabinetry with good lighting to be used when inspecting instruments.
• Segregate the steriliser from all other facilities.
• Provide wash-hand basins for staff to use at the completion of each of the decontamination processes.
• Separate the input door in the dirty area and the area used to empty the clean instruments by a barrier if a double-ended washer disinfector is in use, or build it directly into the separating wall between the dirty and clean areas.

For obvious reasons, the equipment that you choose will have a significant impact on infection prevention and control management, so it is wise to consider your options carefully before making a decision. For cleaning there are three suggested methods of washer disinfector, manual combined with ultrasonic cleaning or manual, but to guarantee that all proteins and contaminants are removed prior to sterilisation a washer disinfector is the best choice. Again, think of it like planning a weekend away – if you had the choice of walking, getting the train or driving a car directly to your destination, you would always opt for what is the most convenient, straightforward and effective option, so be sure to do the same with your decontamination equipment. There is also your steriliser to think about as well as a handpiece cleaner to assist with lubrication in addition to cleaning and maintenance.

Once installed, it’s up to you to keep on top of maintenance, servicing, testing and validation, just as you would with your car, to ensure that all equipment is working efficiently. Only then can you achieve complete compliance. At Eschmann, we offer Care&Cover protection alongside our leading Little Sister decontamination equipment to take care of all these aspects, leaving you to focus on improving your workflow and delivering quality patient care.

The journey to achieving and maintaining compliance is a long road, but with stringent infection control measures and top quality equipment you can ensure that patients and staff alike are protected against dangerous pathogens.

For more information on the highly effective and affordable range of decontamination equipment and products from EschmannDirect, please visit www.eschmann.co.uk or call 01903 753322

Dentistry is all about marginal gains – how can each aspect of practice be improved to achieve the most efficient and effective outcome. With decontamination the answer can be found with the new Assistina TWIN from leading manufacturer, W&H.

As the first reprocessing device to be equipped with two process chambers that can be used alternately for non-stop loading, the Assistina TWIN is extremely quick and powerful to use. It takes just 10 seconds to reprocess each handpiece making it possible to process up to 360 handpieces per hour to a consistently high standard. Now, results are guaranteed twice as fast – what more could you ask for?

Actually, there’s a lot more you could ask for, and with the Assistina TWIN you get it all from innovative oil nebulisation technology to a cost effective design so that each refill maintains approximately 2,800 instruments. Together, the unit’s speed, efficiency, intuitiveness and ease of use, ensure you make marginal gains in decontamination in your practice.

To find out more visit www.wh.com/en_uk, call 01727 874990 or email office.uk@wh.com

Offering an innovative combination of cycle verification and air detection technology to guarantee the sterility of every cycle, it is no wonder that the Little Sister SES 3000B is the most popular vacuum autoclave in the UK, based on the number of UK dentists now using it.

The Little Sister SES 3000B is a 17-litre B Type vacuum autoclave with a 5kg load capacity complete with an integral USB cycle download and user password protected cycle verification. Its robust, safety-conscious design helps not only to save you valuable time and money on vital maintenance, but offers complete peace of mind that you’re meeting the highest standard of infection control.

With the added benefit of Care&Cover Protection, which provides lifetime breakdown warranty, annual validation, PSSR certification and more for total compliance, it’s easy to see why Eschmann’s SES 3000B is leading the way.

For more information on the highly effective and affordable range of decontamination equipment and products from EschmannDirect, please visit www.eschmann.co.uk or call 01903 753322