Practice News

10 SWEET GIFTS THIS EASTER FROM SET LEICESTER

We love shopping locally and try to do so whenever possible. So on our hunt to bring you this blog and the task of persuading you away from a mass quantity of easter eggs (you can’t eat 20!) we needed something good, something really good. We needed Set.

So with a little help from the lovely folks at Leicester’s Highcross gift shop- Set we bring you a list of ’10 Sweet Gifts this Easter’ with something for your little niece, terrible brother, doting daughter, lovely mother, socked out dad, gorgeous granny, or a selfie for your selfie! Set yourself apart from the usually monotony of egg gifts this Easter with our top 10 picks.

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Soft and cuddly lamb £15.99 and his friend the duckling £10.99 both from Jellycat.

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Salt and Pepper Dutch rabbits £14.99

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Wear this adorable Easter bunny with pride, cute ceramic necklace £20.

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Silver kissing rabbits earrings by Amanda Coleman £25.

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Light the way with these battery night lights, from £4.99 each.

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Save your teeth and test your brain instead, Roses jigsaw puzzle £9.99.

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Make sure that lunch is healthy, Happy Jackson lunch box £5.99

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Show off those sparkly teeth in a super Selfie Stick shot £17.99

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Easter pineapple! Why not, ceramic and a money box £14.99

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Relax with a soap cake, just don’t try eating it £4.99.

All gifts and many more Easter treats are available from the fabulous gift shop Set based at the Highcross here in Leicester.

Smile Essential Dental Practice Wins Award For Excellent Customer Service AGAIN!!!

Smile Essential Dental Practice has been recognised with an award for excellent customer service by private healthcare search engine, WhatClinic.com, based on feedback by customers over a twelve month period.

WhatClinic awarded the top clinics across the country with awards for excellent customer service, superior satisfaction and consumer feedback. Customers rated clinics based on how well the clinic treated them, how quickly they were contacted and seen, and how happy they were with the treatment.
Smile Essential was honoured to receive the award again due to their fantastic customer feedback and constant drive to better patient experience.

Dr Niket Patel today said; “We are delighted to be recognised for the second year for our continual commitment to customer service. As Leicester’s leading dental practice, it is something we focus on in everything we really do value such positive feedback from our patients.”

WhatClinic.com CEO Caelen King congratulated Dr Niket Patel and the Smile Essential dental team she said “Our awards are now in their 6th year and it’s great to see more clinics than ever reaching the high standards we set in order to receive this award.

“It’s the customer who selects our awards winners, by their clinic ratings and the feedback they leave about service and experience. We believe that empowering the patient with accurate information is the future of a successful healthcare market. With these awards we honour clinics that are dedicated to the highest level of customer care and consistently putting the needs of the patient first.”

Smile Essential Dental Practice really is a dentist with a difference. Our focus is making your dental visit as relaxed and comfortable as possible. We treat people as individuals and appreciate a trip to the dentist might make you a little apprehensive but we believe going the extra step in customer service, kind words and dental excellence make that journey a little easier.

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Good Dental Health at Local School

It’s well publicised that Leicester has the highest dental decay rate of children in England. So we at Smile Essential Dental Practice take part in various activities across Leicester to help educate others in the importance of dental care. Our most recent trip out in the community was to help educate the young children aged around 5 in good dental health. The photos above show Claire and Emilia visiting a local Braunstone Primary school.

This was Smile Essentials second visit to the school and the children seemed to really enjoy themselves, partaking in activities to increase their awareness on the importance of brushing and limiting sugary foods/drinks.

Five year old children living in Leicester have the highest experience of dental decay observed in England.

The 2012 results show an increase in the proportion of children with dental decay in
Leicester from 48.7% in 2008 to 53.2% in 2012, equating to a percentage point
increase of 4.5%.
• At age 5, children normally have 20 primary teeth. On average, 5 year old children in
Leicester had just under 4 teeth (3.88) that were decayed, missing or filled.
• The average number of decayed, missing or filled teeth in the whole sample taken in
Leicester (including the 46.8% who were decay free) was 2.06. This was more than
double the national rate of 0.94.

There is a strategy now in place in Leicester with the NHS and Leicester City Council. The aim of the strategy is to support coordinated activity across Leicester City to improve oral health, reduce oral health inequalities and lay solid foundations for good oral health throughout life.

Their objectives are:

• Optimising exposure to fluoride
• Gain multi-partnership support in order for everyone to play a role in improving oral health
• Improve preventive and routine dental attendance
• Improve parental skills on caring for children’s oral health

How you can help?

• Ensure that your child brushes 2x a day with a fluoride toothpaste
• Limit or eliminate the amount of sugary foods and drinks your child consumes
• Regularly attend for your dental care and treatment/prevention appointments
• Improve your child’s understanding of the importance of having healthy teeth and gums.

To find out about our preventative treatments available to all of our registered patients children click here

How clean is your dentists loo?

Choosing a dental practice can be tricky, what should you look for? There are so many things to consider nowadays whether you are looking for cosmetic work, you’re nervous or just want somewhere decent to take the kids. With recent press coverage of a local dentist and his hygiene procedures this is now another consideration for you to think about when choosing a new dentist.

What sort of safety considerations and questions should you look for:

What are their decontamination and sterilisation procedures?
Are all of the staff registered with the General Dental Council?
Does it look a clean, fresh and friendly environment?
What are other people saying about them?
How clean is their loo?

How clean is their loo?

This can sound like a daft question but, how often will you judge a cafe, bar or any public place by the state of their loo? In truth you might feel a little uncomfortable asking to see your dentist decontamination procedures but asking to nip to their loo is easy.

Smile Essential’s Decontamination Key Points:

Use single use (disposable) dental items when possible (gloves, needles etc)
Surfaces disinfected with a specialised solution between patients.
Dental instruments are cleaned and processed away from the dental room in a special decontamination room.
Sterilisation of instruments using a dental autoclave
Items and dental instruments are stored in sealed in pouch envelopes designed for dentistry where possible or where not in a sealed container.
All dental staff undergo significant decontamination training and continual development.
Regular testing and maintenance of dental equipment and appliances.

As you can see there is a lot more to do then just washing your hands and cleaning a few instruments.

Dental Decontamination Room at our Leicester Clinic

Are you well connected?

Post by Smile Essential Creating Confidence.

We love connecting with our patients on facebook. People can message us if they need emergency help (holidays abroad seem to be the big dental problem) , take part in some exclusive facebook competitions or just nose at our daft photos! So if you haven’t liked our dental page already then why not go ahead like us, rate us and if you’re happy recommend us to your friends.

Smile Essential Dental Practice: Walk on the Wildside

I should imagine that every Leicestershire person at some point in their life has a fond memory of Bradgate Park. Whether it’s a Sunday stroll after dinner or paddling in the River with fishing net in hand as a child on a summers day. This is a place to make life’s treasured memories and enjoy quality family time. With this in mind there doesn’t seem a more suited location to have a sponsored walk to raise money for Leicester based charity LOROS.

LOROS care for around 2,500 terminally ill people across Rutland, Leicester and Leicestershire each year and hold an annual Walk on the Wildside sponsored walking event at Bradgate Park in Leicester. At Smile Essential Dentist we are committed to Patient care and this has earned us a reputation as one of Leicesters Best Dental Clinics. To do this there is a lot of work in the background at the dentist to ensure that we can offer this level of patient dental care consistently. However our work is always rewarded as we get to see a new smile or improve people’s dental anxiety. Patient care is our top priority at Smile Essential Dental Practice. This is one of the reasons we felt that this year we would raise funds to help LOROS and the amazing patient care they provide to terminally ill people when they most need it.

And raise funds we did! With the help of our Patients, Dental Colleagues and Local Business’s we set about raising a huge £1000 for LOROS and are pleased to say that we have actually raised a massive £1166.58. So a heart felt thank you to everyone that has helped and we hope you enjoy these photos of the dental team from the event.

Kidz Week at the Dentist…

dentist leicester Lets be honest most adults wish that they had looked after their teeth better as a child. And they probably despair when they’re own kids fail to adhere to their tales of wisdom. If you’re a child in Leicester nowadays then the chances are you will have tooth decay. Children in Leicester are the most likely in the whole of the England to have tooth decay.

We are here to help! On Monday 18th August until Thursday 21st August, the dentist will be a great place for kids this summer. From Frozen on the TVs in surgery, fun games, a party bag for all kids that week, competitions to win loom bands! And many more surprises, your kids will be brushing their teeth and ditching the sugar before you know it!

Prevention, Prevention, Prevention. Prevention really is the key to dental decay. Brushing twice a day and limiting sugary foods is a major part in preventing tooth decay. But did you know that your dentist can apply a fluoride varnish to teeth to help better protect them?

You are not alone Getting children to brush their teeth properly can be a battle! We hear all sorts of stories about the length at which some children go to to avoid this including our own! Sometimes a word from the dentist can set them on the straight and narrow, but even then it can take a few check up appointments. Consistency is key.

Not a patient of the practice. We believe coming to the dentist as a family is the best option. There are no charges for children at the dentist and we will see all children whose parents are patients at the practice. Most of our patients are on our membership plan as it’s a really easy way to budget for your dental treatment.

Call our friendly team to schedule your appointment today 0116 2891317

We are Taking a Walk on the Wild Side. Can You Help?

dentists in leicester are raising money for charity

Patient care is something that is close to our heart at Smile Essential and this year we want to give back and help a charity that is close to our hearts, LOROS.

This September we are taking a Walk on the Wild Side at Bradgate Park and would love your support to help us raise money for LOROS .

Please donate what you can we have a target of £1000 and hope to exceed it!

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Stop Smoking With Smile Essential Dentist

As a dental practice you may be surprised to hear that we can now offer you help in stopping smoking. With more people every year getting help to stub out, we are pleased to now be able to refer you to a local stop smoking service.

We all know that smoking is bad for your health and wealth but we recently had some smoking cessation training at the dentist and were surprised to learn a few new things.

‘Smoking thickens your blood and makes it much harder to carry oxygen’

‘Smoking increases the build up of plaque and tartar on the teeth’

‘Every year after the age of 30 that you smoke you take 3 months off of your life’

If you would like help on stopping smoking please discuss it at your next dental health check. Or to find out more please visit- http://www.nhs.uk/smokefree.

National Smile Month

National Smile Month is the UK’s one of the largest oral health campaigns. Together, with other dentists, thousands of individuals, organisations and hopefully our patients too. We will be able to promote 3 key messages, all of which go a long way in helping us develop and maintain a healthy mouth:

Brush your teeth for two minutes twice a day with a fluoride toothpaste
Cut down on how often you have sugary foods and drinks
Visit your dentist regularly, as often as they recommend.

It is particularly important for the people of Leicester to promote this message for the the children in the county. According to an NHS report, over 50% of children in Leicester have dental decay compared to the national average of 27%. A shocking statistic, I’m sure you’ll agree.

During National Smile Month we have been approached by the Leicester City Council to hold a toothbrush amnesty, because of the shocking figures here in Leicester. All children under the age of 6 qualify and they don’t need to be a patient at Smile Essential. Simply bring in their old tooth brush, complete a short survey and we will exchange for a new toothbrush and toothpaste.

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What sort of safety considerations and questions should you look for:

How clean is their loo?

Smile Essential’s Decontamination Key Points:

Dental Decontamination Room at our Leicester Clinic