Blog Series – Dental exam, chart and treatment plan

Never treat a stranger. We need to know as much as we can about you before we start treatment. For us to do this we need to know what you have and what you don’t have and your medical and dental health. It’s like a snapshot in time. From here we can work out how we can achieve lifelong changes for the better.

The driving forces behind these changes are:

• Prevention is better than cure.
• If can’t do good, then do no harm.
• We can only help you help yourself.

Here is the series.

• Understanding your Medical Needs
• What is in a dental exam – There is more to your mouth than teeth
• The Dental Chart – The abstract dental artwork of you
• Treatment Plan – The road map to boring is good
• “Building on the solid foundation” – The next phase of treatment planning

“Rome wasn’t built in a day”, and so it goes with dental treatment. It may take time to achieve the goals set out in a treatment plan. Sometimes we can stage treatment to work in with the other things going on in your life. Also planning treatment in phases is clinically better, as we make sure that the foundation for the next phase has been proven over time.

Next week: Blog Series – A Day in the of a Dental Nurse