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Smile With Confidence
In order to keep your teeth, all your tissues, gum, dental bone
and teeth need to be healthy.
This sometimes may involve more than a ‘scale and polish’! In such
cases, when routine maintenance is not being totally effective this
can be picked up at the ‘check-up’ by gently ‘probing’ the gums as
well as checking the teeth. Your Dentist is the person qualified to
prescribe a course of intensive non-surgical treatment that they
feel is likely to help your gum condition. Working together with
your dentist and you, we at MIDHS can improve the health of your
whole mouth, helping to keep your teeth and smile.
Keep Your Smile
We at MIDHS (Maggie Jackson’s Independent Dental Hygiene Service)
are a team of Hygienists with combined experience of more than 50
years in ‘specialist gum practices’ and are devoted to carefully
treating and refining the techniques used to help you achieve and
keep your teeth, gum and dental bone healthy for life.
Some people are particularly susceptible to gum and dental bone
loss.
The first sign is usually bleeding from your gums (Gingivitis)
when brushing your teeth or eating coarse foods, such as when biting
into an apple. Sometimes you may notice blood on your pillow.
Gingivitis can progress into ‘Gum Disease’ (Periodontitis) where the
fibres of your gum ligaments become broken or damaged and a pocket
forms between your tooth and gum. If left to continue this triggers
a loss of dental bone support, which can – if left unchecked, cause
you to have loosening teeth and gum abscesses.
Many people loose teeth due to this disease.
Help Is At Hand
We cannot reverse bone loss but, with your cooperation we can halt it and stabilise the health of your mouth by treating infection and encouraging healing with the aim of keeping your teeth for life.
Prescribed
By Your Dentist
Therapy
prescribed by your dentist may involve:
New patient consultation;
Level 1: £48.00
- A discussion with you about any symptoms and
causes for concern
- A review of your medical history
- A soft tissue check
- Basic hygiene therapy
- Oral health guidance
- Includes a scale and a polish if appropriate.
Or
New patient consultation;
Level 2: £98.00
Longer consultation between 45 and 60 minutes
This will usually include;
- A discussion with you about any symptoms and
causes for concern
- A review of your medical history
- A soft tissue check
- A charting of gum pockets
- Oral health guidance and oral hygiene items explained
- Initial non surgical therapy
X-Rays will be required according to your dentist’s wishes these can be arranged by us or provided by your Dentist.
When we produce a pocket charting of
your problem areas we give you a copy. After treatment we will also
give you a copy of the new chart so you can see any areas where
there is still any problem. This is an example of a real patients
chart. Some months after treatment there are no pockets (in Blue)
and there is no bleeding (Red).
X-Rays help as they show us the areas of bone loss.
Your Input
Please bring all implements you use to cleanse your mouth. DO NOT
BUY NEW.
After your initial consultation, you may be asked to attend further
appointments at MIDHS.
At the end of therapy we will send copies of your records relating
to your therapy to your dentist who will assess the results and
recommend any further treatment.
Read If You Want to Keep Your Teeth ‘Don’t Floss!’
View examples of before and after treatment.
For more information please contact
MIDHS Central Office: Beacon Business Centre, 14 Arundel St, Mossley, Tameside. OL5 0LSTel: 08456 777 007 Fax: 0845 450 5403
www.midhs.co.uk email: info@midhs.co.uk
Practices at Colchester Essex, Cheadle, Manchester and Mossley Lancs. We accept referrals for Dental Hygienist Therapies but do not ourselves claim to be a ‘Specialist Periodontal Practice’. At no time will we operate beyond our entitlement, qualification or experience.