Dedicated Hygiene Suite - Now Open

On Monday 18 October we unveiled our latest addition to Longborough - a dedicated hygiene suite. This fantastic treatment room is furnished in the same monochromatic contemporary style as our recently refurbished dental treatment rooms. It provides our hygiene team with a permanent home and our patients with the opportunity to benefit from a treatment room set up specifically to improve their oral health and hygiene.

What is Good Oral Hygiene?
Good oral hygiene results in a mouth that looks healthy and the confidence of fresh breath.
This means:

• Your teeth are clean and free of debris
• Gums are firmly held against teeth and do not hurt or bleed when you brush or floss
• Bad breath is not a constant problem

If your gums do hurt or bleed while brushing or flossing, or you are experiencing persistent bad breath, tell your dental hygienist. Any of these conditions may indicate a problem.

Your hygienist can help you learn good oral hygiene techniques and can help point out areas of your mouth that may require extra attention during brushing and flossing.

Alison
Practice Manager

Longborough Dental Practice

Warwickshire Sprint Triathlon – I'm still out of breath

I decided that I needed a challenge and “persuaded” my sister that a sprint triathlon would be a good idea and a suitable challenge. It involves a 400m swim, followed by 23km cycle and a 5km run. We chose to get sponsorship for Arthritis Research UK as our mother had suffered severely from this debilitating disease before she died. I am pleased to say that we have currently raised just over £1,000 (which is double our original target of £500). 

We started training 3 months ago and found that individually, each event was fairly manageable (even though we both struggled with the running, never having done it before).  It was only when we put all the elements together that we realised it was going to be tougher than we had imagined! The worst part was getting off the bicycle after 23km and then running. Our legs felt like jelly and our knees felt like they would fold backwards. 

After our rigorous training schedule (although perhaps not rigorous enough), the Warwickshire Sprint Triathlon was held on Sunday 3 October in the lovely town of Stratford-upon-Avon. The weather on Saturday (the day before) was fine until 7pm when it began to rain and continued to do so, right up to the race on the Sunday morning. Our start time was 11.30 and by this time there was just a gentle drizzle, but the road conditions were far from great and the run was just a muddy quagmire in parts, making it really hard work. But we completed it! 

We came in at 189 and 190 out of about 230 ladies (and higher than we had originally anticipated). Then we determined that we would never ever, ever do anything as silly again. Upon reflection however, we have decided to attempt one more Triathlon, at the same venue in May next year - just to see if we can improve a little! 

Thanks to everyone who helped us raise so much money for Arthritis Research UK. 

Janet Sutherland

Patient Advisor

Longborough Dental Practice

After the flood!

 If you have visited Longborough in recent weeks you may have noticed some changes! Not only have we recently completed phase two of our refurbishment but we have suffered the major inconvenience of a flood!

Fortunately for us the water damage was limited to the central core of the building, missing all of our new improved treatment rooms.

The flood was caused by a perished washer between our mains water supply the water tank in the loft. It's amazing that something so small could cause so much damage. The leak happened over a weekend and we are very lucky that the restoration work necessary is limited; it could have been so much worse.

In true Longborough style we've 'got on with it!' (Safety first of course). We've managed to keep the practice open with the help of our fantastic patients (that's you!). It is now even more of a challenge as we enter phase three of refurbishment with the added complication of the water damage repairs.

What is phase three?  With the very generous help of former partners Calvert and Hooker the front of the house is being re-rendered with a lovely white render and treated with a fantastic insulation system that should help keep the heating bills down in the winter. (Watch out for scaffolding over the next few weeks!) Then we start work on the refurbishment of the hygiene suite which will allow us to offer you a wider range of hygiene treatments and appointments.

Finally, as we work through this difficult time we would all like to thank you for your support and understanding; we are ever mindful that you, our patients, are at the centre of everything we do.

More news soon

Alison
Practice Manager

Longborough Dental Practice