It\u2019s often hard to know who’s who at your dental practice and what their involvement is as part of the team looking after your oral health. So we
\nat Woodcock Lane Dental Care have put together an easy reference guide to help you get to know your practice team:<\/p>\n
Hygienist<\/strong> -Dental hygienists provide clinical and educational care to help you achieve and maintain good oral hygiene. Uniquely qualified to help with the prevention and treatment of oral disease, they focus on preventing gum disease by scaling and polishing teeth and developing plans for you to use at home to maintain your oral health. Hygienists can help to identify those areas where you have difficulty in removing plaque and work with you to modify your brushing technique to ensure effective cleaning.<\/p>\n Oral Health Educator<\/strong> – This is a qualified dental nurse who has achieved a further qualification gaining the necessary knowledge and skills to educate patients on 1:1 basis about their oral health and bring about favourable changes in their oral health behaviour.<\/p>\n Dental Nurse<\/strong> -A dental nurse will work closely with the dentist throughout your visit. They make sure the right instruments and equipment are available, prepare the various materials needed and clean and sterilise used instruments. The dental nurse is often responsible for ensuring there is effective infection control in place, so there is no risk of infection to anyone working in the surgery or coming to the practice for care or treatment. Additional duties may include processing dental x-rays and helping the dentist to record information about your oral health.<\/p>\n Dentist<\/strong> – Dentists are experts in reviewing and advising you on the condition of your oral health. They are also highly skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of a range of problems that affect the mouth and teeth. It takes around five years to train to become a dentist at a British dental school, followed by one year\u2019s Vocational Training at an approved dental practice.<\/p>\n Once qualified, dentists keep up to date through further training and professional development to keep themselves up-to-date with all the new dental techniques, regulations and products. Dentists can also gain further qualifications and training for a more in-depth knowledge of a certain area of dentistry \u2013 such as orthodontics or implantology.<\/p>\n Practice Manager<\/strong> – Practice managers supervise the dental team, organise and support dental nurses and receptionists, liaise with dentists and hygienists, and arrange staff meetings and training. They are also responsible for the upkeep of legally required documents and records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s often hard to know who’s who at your dental practice and what their involvement is as part of the team looking after your oral health. So we at Woodcock Lane Dental Care have put together an easy reference guide to help you get to know your practice team: Hygienist -Dental hygienists provide clinical and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodcocklanedentalcare.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}