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<\/a><\/p>\nOur dental nurse Faith and hygienist Eleanor both gave up their free time over Christmas to assist Crisis.\u00a0 At Brightside Dental we choose a charity each month to support by our clinician’s making a donation to the charity as a result of keeping our clients waiting anything more than 10 minutes past their booked appointment time.\u00a0 As a result we donated \u00a3155 to Crisis for December.<\/p>\n
Below is Faith’s account of her experience:<\/p>\n
“I volunteered for Crisis at Christmas and I had a truly amazing and humbling experience. In 2013 Crisis welcomed more than 4000 homeless people out of the cold. There were 10 centers open from 22nd<\/sup>-30th <\/sup>December providing hot food, companionship, feel-good services and essential services such as health checks, housing advice, further education opportunities and dental treatments.<\/p>\n I was privileged to be a special services volunteer as part of the dental team. On my first day I was slightly nervous and unsure of what to expect however from the second I walked in I was greeted by warm smiles and was made to feel welcome and comfortable. The whole dental team that I volunteered with were fantastic. Everyone was very helpful and kind and I was fortunate to meet them.<\/p>\n I was disappointed to find out that dental nurses were \u2018\u2019like gold dust\u2019\u2019. On the days I worked I was the only official dental nurse amongst lots of dentists and hygienists but everyone chipped in and performed whatever role was needed.<\/p>\n There were four dental vans in the car park and I was surprised to find that they were just like a normal dental surgery. I was assigned to work alongside the dentist in one of the vans. We provided a range of treatments including checkups, fillings, scale and polish etc. Most patients just wanted a scale and polish so they could \u2018\u2019be happy and have a lovely smile again\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n I worked from 10am-7pm but the time flew. The patients were lovely and had some amazing stories to tell, most of which pulled at my heart strings. I could have happily sat there for hours to talk to them. One patient said \u2019\u2019It\u2019s nice to be treated like an equal and feel like a human being again\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n I volunteered for Crisis so I could give something back. I feel guilty when I walk past a homeless person and often feel unsure whether to give them money or not. So I wanted to help by giving them my time and assisting with a vital service which I am passionate about as homeless people often find access to dentistry very difficult. I found the whole experience very rewarding I had an amazing time. This was my first year volunteering but it is definitely not my last.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our dental nurse Faith and hygienist Eleanor both gave up their free time over Christmas to assist Crisis.\u00a0 At Brightside Dental we choose a charity each month to support by our clinician’s making a donation to the charity as a result of keeping our clients waiting anything more than 10 minutes past their booked … Continue reading Brightside Dental Supporting Crisis At Christmas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}