Happy New Year – Highlights of 2022 – Part 4 – October – December

The Conversation Blog Series – Section 1 covers the expression – “Never treat a stranger”. This is not limited to your name, address and star sign… No, we don’t need that. We need to know what may affect our care of you.

The world of the lockdown is a surreal world.

Now the “IRL”, in real life world is now surreal. We have to learn to see people again. This means having conversations, understanding body language, facial expression, being in a crowd, and reading the room.

The Conversation Blog Series – Section 2 explores the social conversation that has a health component to better understand your life style. Many dental and oral issues are preventable with some changes in habits.

We then posed the questions – Doesn’t look like a big deal on the x-ray – or is it? and Doesn’t look like a big deal on the tooth – or is it?

Even on X-rays it not obvious there is decay under the small opening of the enamel. The X-ray detects a loss of tooth material but not a change in tooth structure. The small opening prevents the loss of material and on an Xray it may look like there is no problem.

November

Halloween 2022 – Sweet Treat and Trick. The trick is sugar is not a treat anymore. It’s everywhere. In bread rolls, supposed savoury foods, sauces and so on.

Now for something completely different…

What our Patients Do – May the Artist – Inspired by Dylan. All our patients have stories to tell! I have known May for many years and her passions are art, music, entertaining and of course, Bob Dylan. This is her story; enjoy.

James at Dance Ability – Grease is the Word! James at a Dance Ability event. Grease is the word! Good to see this event is back, thanks to the generosity of the organisers. A lot of fun. Biggest grin and moves from my young man. Go James go – Grease lightning!

Clinical situation blog ends the month with Excess Tissue Removal – Part 1. The gums are always reactive to changes to the environment, by overgrowing, ulcerating, scarring, tumours, and unfortunately changing to form lesions of many diseases processes such as autoimmune diseases and cancer.

December

Excess Tissue Removal – Part 2 covers excess tissue as part of the body’s response to irritation. The immune system kicks and get there by fluid leaking out of blood vessels. The tissue puffs up and swells. Sometimes, fibrous tissue forms, like scar tissue to protect the body. The gum in this situation has a tendency to grow to the nearest firm object.

We then deep dive into Blog series – Lesions that basically, a lesion is region the body that has suffered damage from an injury or disease, such as a wound, ulcer, abscess, or tumour. This blog series a wide variety of problems the soft tissue of the mouth encounters, which may have systemic effects on the body.

We are coming to end of 2022 with Merry Christmas from Seymour Dental – 2022 – The Year of the New Normal? and Merry Christmas – Dentist at Large – 2022.

It’s been an interesting and often stressful time for patients as well as the team. All I can say we live in the lucky country. I am very thankful to my amazing staff and patients who have endured many changes, some of which are once in a lifetime.