{"id":575,"date":"2014-04-17T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2024-04-23T11:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T10:11:46","slug":"advances-in-gum-disease-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/advances-in-gum-disease-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Advances In Gum Disease Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the dental hygienists from Brightside Dental, Eleanor and Lyndsey along with practice principal Ketan attended a 2 day conference in Manchester. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2160.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-576\" alt=\"IMG_2160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2160-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2160-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_2160-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The main focus of the event was hygiene treatment and gum health. \u00a0It was organised by the Team Training Institute and their member Wendy Briggs chaired the 2 days. \u00a0She is a practicing dental hygienist from America and lectures extensively on the subject. \u00a0This was the first time, such an event has taken place in the UK and we were fortunate to be one of only a select few dental practices to be able to attend the event.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the training, we will be able to build upon our already extensive hygiene services that we provide. Also we will be placing an even greater emphasis on preventive care, with some new treatments available with a view to helping our clients keep their teeth for life.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a large emphasis on the mind-body connection. We have been aware of gum disease having an impact on other diseases and conditions within the body for some time and the latest research shows that this is becoming much more extensive, so the need for maintaining a healthy mouth is more important than ever.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to know more about how we can help in the fight against gum disease please call us on 020 88884401.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the dental hygienists from Brightside Dental, Eleanor and Lyndsey along with practice principal Ketan attended a 2 day conference in Manchester. \u00a0 The main focus of the event was hygiene treatment and gum health. \u00a0It was organised by the Team Training Institute and their member Wendy Briggs chaired the 2 days. \u00a0She is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/advances-in-gum-disease-treatment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advances In Gum Disease Treatment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":576,"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":[4,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practice-news","category-team-training","category-treatments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","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=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}