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Practice Newsletter: June 2010: New Look Practice Coming Soon!

Monday, June 7th, 2010

“I love our beautiful practice, but i have always wanted my dream practice. After many years of re-investing in our practice with the support of our loyal patients, my wife and our lovely staff  I have decided to design and build my dream practice. Life is short, if not now then when?”

Dr. Rik Trivedi 

The Practice

We are in the process of expanding our existing practice and relocating to the building next door at 189 Parrock Street. Building works started in April 2010 and are expected to complete this September.

The new bespoke dental practice has been designed by the award winning London architect Richard Mitzman ( http://www.richardmitzman.com ) who himself is a dentist. The advantage of this is that we have designed the entire practice with our patients in mind to create a “WOW” environment of luxury.

The new practice will have a large waiting room and reception area, 5 brand new surgeries, 2 consultation rooms, an xray room and a seperate decontamination /sterilisation room for the highest hygiene standards. The practice is on the ground floor and is fully disabled/wheel chair patient friendly. There will be state of the art surgeries with the most advanced technology. There will be plenty of natural light and glass walls and even a landscaped garden.

We feel the new practice would harmonise our practice philosophy more closely “…to enable our patient to achieve optimum health, look good and feel great about their teeth and smiles”. We provide VALUE NHS and FINEST PRIVATE services through our continual training and advanced technology.

“We are expanding and growing to improve our services and facilities for you our patients. We welcome New Patients and friends and family of our existing patients! We grow through your recommendations. Thank-you.”

 

The Dentists

Joining our Dental team is Dr. Manmit (Manny) Matharu who will be joining the practice in August. He is a vibrant, bubbly and confident dentist who will fit in well with our energetic, highly trained and customer focused team. He is looking forward to meeting you over the coming months.

The Staff

Following on from our practice expansion we have grown our team of dentists and staff. Laura has joined the customer service team in reception and the surgery. She has extensive experience in customer service and is a lovely, bubbly and happy person who will enhance your experience further at our practice.

We would like to take this oppurtunity to wish our lovely nurse Nicola all the best for the new adventures of motherhood that lie ahead for her. We are also very pleased to welcome back Irene from her maternity leave. She is loving motherhood but missed our lovely patients! 

Our Services

We provide all services for General, Cosmetic and Implant Dentistry at the highest standards. We provide Value NHS and Finest Private dentistry. Our dentists are constantly updating their skills and services to be the best for their patients. We have a reputation from our clients for being one of the best practices in Kent, for London and the UK. Please see our blog and photo/video testimonial links above to see our many raving fans at our practice.


Advanced Dental Implant Training In Frankfurt

Monday, May 31st, 2010

Rik has just returned from a 3 day advanced course in advanced dental implant procedures in Frankfurt, Germany.

There he observed live surgery involving the most advanced procedures to treat patients with missing and failing teeth.

Patients attended with insufficient bone in areas requiring dental implants to replace missing teeth.

In the back part of the upper jaw a procedure called a sinus augmentation/graft procedure was carried out. This involved accessing and lifting the upper jaw sinus lining and placing an artificial graft material and occasionally simultaneous implant placement. The graft material encourages natural bone formation and this is allowed to heal with implant placement for about 6 months.

The best form of graft material is natural bone from the patient in another part of the mouth. In other areas with bone deficiency natural bone was taken either from the chin or back part of the lower jaw and fixated to the deficiency and allowed to heal. After 3-4 months this bone usually heals and corrects the deficiency to enable implant placement.

Where there were deficiencies making the area for implant placement too thin advanced procedures were learnt to expand the ridge avoiding a bone graft to allow simultaneous implant placement. Likewise where there were small deficiencies in bone height in the back part of the upper jaw simple techniques were observed to increase the height for simultaneous implant placement.

All in all a great 3 day experience which will benefit those of our patients with missing teeth, dentures and failed bridgework and crowns greatly in achieving fixed naturally looking and functioning teeth.


What is BDA good practice?

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

We are proud to say that we have been members of BDA good practice scheme for the last four years.

To call ourselves a good practice, we have

  • Carefully looked at the service that we provide for our patients and compared it, and ensured it exceeds, against nationally recognised standards of good practice for patient care
  • Prepared a dossier about our practice to show how we are meeting the Good Practice Scheme’s requirements. The BDA asks to see parts of the dossier before we can join the scheme
  • Continued to carry out our own internal checks on working procedures

We continually strive to update our knowledge, skills, techniques, equipment and staff training to offer the very highest customer service and patient care in the Uk dental sector.


Another happy patient overcomes her nerves at Parrock Street Dental Care

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Another happy patient overcomes her anxiety of dental treatment and is happy with the experience and her treatment at Parrock Street Dental Care.


Teeth Whitening Testimonial at Kent Cosmetic Dentist, Gravesend

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Hello, my name is Eula and I am a receptionist at Parrock Street Dental Care.
I found that in the past I had very yellow teeth due to my love of wine, currys and smoking. I felt that i wanted my teeth to look healthy and so after discussing my concerns with Dr Trivedi, i opted for professional (take-home kit) teeth whitening. I found the whole experience to be very easy and I am really glad that i proceeded with the whitening as I feel so much more confident now. Should you have any questions regarding teeth whitening please do not hesitate to call the practice on 01474 537191


Denture Repair – Same Day Lab Repairs

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Sometimes patients have the mistaken notion that if they have broken their denture they have to see a dentist to get a new one, however that is not always the case.  On many occasions a denture can be repaired or added to without needing any impressions by the dentist.

Colin has been a dental technician for over 30 years and thoroughly enjoys his job. He works Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and is available to help repair and add to any broken dentures or replace any missing teeth onto a denture.

You do not have to be registered at our practice in order to use the services of our dental laboratory. You can bring your broken denture to us and after Colin has made an assessment of the denture we can advise you of the proposed course of action needed in order to fix your denture.

Just like an optician we recommend two pairs of glasses, We recommend that our denture wearing patients always have a spare set of dentures made, in the unlikely event that their permanent dentures are misplaced, dropped, broken etc….. they will then not have to go without any teeth as the process of making a great fitting and looking new denture can take a few appointments over the course of a few weeks.

As a fixed alternative to dentures patients may want to consider implant supported dentures or bridges

Should you have any queries regarding your dentures, please do not hesistate to contact us on 01474 537191