July 2009
Dental Health Spa in Queen’s Road have launched Spa Kids which is dedicated to teaching children about oral hygiene.
I was really interested to re-visit Dental Health Spa in Queen’s Road which I covered in an earlier issue of Regency soon after they opened two years ago. The Director is Christina Chatfield, who is passionate about oral hygiene and who opened her clinic to ensure that excellent treatments were easily accessible to everyone. She is a dental hygienist with over 25 years experience in practice and within blue chip health companies, so I particularly wanted to know why she had felt the need to launch Spa Kids earlier this year.
The main reason I discovered is the sad and shocking fact that in the UK today around 40% of all 5 year olds have experienced some form of tooth decay and that dental disease is one of the main reasons why children have to receive a general anaesthetic. This is the result of either a poor diet or the fact that children have never been shown how to clean their teeth properly or a combination of these two reasons. It also does not help that apparently many dentists rarely refer children for hygienist treatment, but rather give the standard 10 minute checkup, then undertake any fillings as and when they are required and simply put the child's teeth ‘on watch’, sometimes without even giving advice on the best way for them to clean them to help to avoid future problems. Full article.
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