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Dentistry

At the Chadwell Heath Dental Practice we offer a wide range of services. For further details see below.

Oral Health

The key to a bright smile is good oral health. Tooth brushing, flossing and diet are all important factors when it comes to maintaining oral health. Many patients do not realise regular brushing is a key factor in fighting tooth decay and maintaining healthy gums.

Hygienist

The hygienist plays an important role in the dental health of our patients, treating dental gum disease. Our hygienist has two main roles: scaling and polishing your teeth and teaching our patients about the importance of oral hygiene.

Fresh Breath

Bad breath is a common problem. 96% of the adult population suffer bad breath at some time in their life and most people periodically worry about it. The difficulty of course, that bad breath is impossible to self-detect, so it is very easy to be oblivious to any problem. If you have reason to believe that there is a problem, see your dentist first, since 95% of the time bad breath comes from the mouth, so book an appointment at the Chadwell Heath Dental Practice today.

What is Gum Disease?

The most common signs of gum disease are red swollen gums, which bleed on brushing. This is often the first indication of gum (periodontal) disease. Gum shrinkage and loosening of teeth occur at the later stages of gum disease (periodontitis). Bad breath and teeth drifting apart are also common signs of gum disease (periodontal disease).

Cosmetic

With cosmetic dentistry the Chadwell Heath Dental Practice can improve your smile and give you confidence with a wide range of treatment options available.

Implants

Dental implants are teeth that can look and feel just like your own. A dental implant is an artificial tooth that a dentist at the Chadwell Heath Dental Practice places into your jaw to hold a replacement tooth or bridge. Dental implants are so natural looking you may forget you ever lost a tooth.

Crowns

A Crown (also known as a cap) is an artificial cover, which fits over a specially prepared natural tooth in order to restore it to its normal appearance and function. A crown completely covers a weak tooth above the gum line and protects it. Crowns are made of metal or porcelain, or porcelain with metal inside for strength.

Whitening

Tooth whitening (also known as “teeth bleaching”) has become the most popular way for dentists to help their patients obtain whiter smiles. While several techniques for teeth whitening exists, in the last decade the “at home” method of whitening has become the most widely used and most successful. This technique utilizes a plastic tray, which is made by the dentist to fit comfortably over the patient’s teeth. The patient places the whitening (bleaching) gel into the tray and the tray is then worn over the teeth for 2-3 hours per day, for several weeks, as the effects of the whitening process takes place.

Dental Anaesthetic Clinic

The Chadwell Heath Anaesthetic Clinic offers an excellent facility for treating nervous patients under I.V.-conscious sedation. For many patients routine dental treatment or extractions can be a frightening experience. We are fully aware of this and our professional team is trained specifically to deal with this – all the team members being experienced in treating nervous patients.

I.V. Sedation

At the Chadwell Heath Anaesthetic Clinic conscious sedation is provided for the nervous patient. Conscious sedation is defined as maintaining verbal contact with the patient at all times during the procedure and the patient’s protective reflexes are maintained (whereas in general anaesthesia these are lost).

Wisdom Teeth

Wisdom teeth are the last molar teeth to develop which usually grow at the very back of the upper and lower jaw bones, one at each back 'corner' of the mouth. Wisdom teeth can be as good and useful as any other teeth provided that, as they develop, they can penetrate the gums and emerge or erupt into the mouth completely and properly. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Frequently wisdom teeth erupt only partly or they don’t erupt at all. They are then called impacted wisdom teeth and they are usually a cause of many problems that makes it necessary for them to be removed by a dentist with a special interest in Oral Surgery at the Chadwell Heath Dental Practice.

Fast Track

Fast Track is Chadwell Heath Anaesthetic Clinic’s way of providing appointments and care for patients, especially children, within 2-3 working days. These patients would otherwise have to wait several weeks, if not months, for dental treatment under IV Sedation.

Physiotherapy

Traditional physiotherapy uses massage and manipulation, in conjunction with exercise and electrotherapy to treat a wide range of conditions affecting our joints and muscles. At the Chadwell Heath Physiotherapist & Sports Injury Rehabilitation Centre our physiotherapist will also use traditional hands-on therapy to treat the joints and soft tissues that are injured; however the key to the cure is in changing the very habits that caused the problem in the first place.

Sports Rehabilitation

Sports Rehabilitation and Injury Prevention BSc was based on its American equivalent in Athletic Training. Its emphasis is injury prevention, primary health care and lifestyle management. Sports Rehabilitation and Injury Prevention has developed from the need for professional holistic care during rehabilitation and recovery with an emphasis on the use of exercise as a therapeutic intervention.

Sports Massage

Sports massage is popular among athletes and exercise participants. It can be beneficial to use sports massage, as it covers not only the management of soft tissues, but manipulation and rehabilitation of the muscles, tendons, and ligaments. In sports massage the therapist at the Chadwell Heath Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Rehabilitation Centre may apply the techniques more firmly and deeper than a general massage therapist might. The use of frictioning is a technique, which involves applying deep pressure to tissues repeatedly, this in turn breaks down adhesions and softens scar tissue and is a choice that may be utilised. Some sports massage techniques are designed to trigger the body’s natural healing response.

Sports Injuries

Sports injuries are caused by a trauma of different degree. Injury can be divided into traumatic injuries, caused by large forces (macrotrauma), and overuse syndromes, caused by repetitive microtrauma. Injury can be specific throughout areas the body i.e. Muscles, Tendons, Ligaments and Bone.

Electrotherapy

Electrotherapy is used for relaxation of muscle spasms, prevention and retardation of disuse atrophy, increase of local blood circulation, muscle rehabilitation and re-education, maintaining and increasing range of motion, management of chronic and intractable pain, post-traumatic acute pain, post surgical acute pain, immediate post-surgical stimulation of muscles to prevent venous thrombosis, and wound healing.

Soft Tissue Release

Muscles often contain specific areas of tightness, perhaps due to fibrotic changes or scar tissue formation resulting from overuse or injury. Soft Tissue Release can be applied to all major muscle groups. The technique works by fixing a specific area of the muscle, which prevents an area of the muscle from moving. This in turn localises the stretch a specific region of the muscle therefore encouraging specific tight fibres to stretch.

Health & Well Being

At the Chadwell Heath Dental Practice & Sedation Clinic, Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Rehabilitation Centre we offer a wide range of services for full body health. The Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Rehabilitation Centre has just opened, alongside the Hypnotherapy, Acupuncture, Wrinkle Reduction and Smoking Cessation Clinic.

Hypnotherapy & NLP

Hypnotherapy is hypnosis used for therapeutic purposes and is a technique used by the hypnotherapist here at the Chadwell Heath Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Rehabilitation Centre, to encourage the conscious mind to help you achieve your goals or find solutions to problems such as weight loss, stress and pain relief and to stop smoking.

Acupuncture

In contrast to traditional Chinese Acupuncture, modern medical acupuncture is not used as a replacement treatment but rather as an additional, or supportive treatment that can offer many benefits to the patient. For example, modern medical acupuncture may allow the dose of drugs being taken by a patient to be dramatically reduced. Modern acupuncture is free from the side effects of drugs and can offer long lasting relief of the patient’s symptoms.

Wrinkle Reduction

The Chadwell Heath Dental Practice is offering a well-known non-surgical beauty treatment. Change the way you look in just a few minutes, you can feel younger, more confident and comfortable with your appearance. And the good news is you can achieve this without resorting to the discomfort and inconvenience of cosmetic surgery. Wrinkles, frown lines and ‘crow’s feet’ removed creating a more natural and youthful appearance.

Smoking Cessation

We at the Chadwell Heath Dental Practice Physiotherapy & Sports Injury Rehabilitation Centre have been offering the NHS Smoking Cessation Service for three years and now we have introduced Smoking Cessation by Hypnotherapy for those who want an alternative method of treatment, this service is on a private basis only.