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Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

19Perio TribuneSeptember 10-16, 2012United Kingdom Edition BoD Practice Managers’ Conference 2012 COMES TO Scotland! Sponsored by Sheila Scott Running the extra mile How to impress your customers. Simon Tucker Crucial conversations How to use communication and selling skills. Laura Horton Do you want fries with that? How to use treatment coordination to boost profits. Ian Langford The dog ate my keys! How to manage your team and deal with absence. • Utilise communication and selling skills to generate more profit • Introduce and use treatment coordination within the practice • Manage your personnel effectively to get the most out of your team • Impress your customers, retain the ones you have and attract new ones. Following the huge success of their initial Practice Managers’ Conference in June, the Business of Dentistry (BoD) is hosting another conference in Edinburgh to satisfy the overwhelming demand from dental practices in Scotland and the north of England. Discover how to... CPD 5.5 HRS Friday 9th November 2012 ■ The King James Hotel, 107 Leith Street, Edinburgh EH1 3SW £120.00* £160.00 An exclusive discount for BoD members per delegate for non-members * Practice Plan members also receive a special discount on the full delegate rate. All prices are inclusive of VAT. Visit the website to view a video of our last conference and find out what other practice managers thought... Includinglunch andrefreshments Book your place now, call 0845 003 0048or visit www.bodhub.co.uk/events G15401 Scottish PMC A4 Advert - Scottish Dentistry.indd 1 31/08/2012 17:35 T he gumsaver® team is thrilled to unveil its brand new oral health system designed to treat and prevent gum disease. The gumsaver® system in- cludes a soft bristled tool spe- cifically designed to remove the bacteria from beneath the gum line and between the teeth, and a simple three step cleaning technique. We have designed Gum- saver® to make the task of looking after gums and teeth simple for dentists, therapists, hygienists and the patient: • The ergonomic design of the brush along with the simple 3 step technique means patients can be taught how to treat and prevent gum disease at home. • The bristle heads are an- gled towards each other and are spaced apart, providing a small clearance in which the inter-dental spaces are lined up during use. • An up and down motion will guide a head under the gum- line and into the pocket to remove bacteria rooted deep inside the inter-dental space. Just repeat in between every tooth, inside and out. • The unique angle of the heads make it easy for the patient to use and the soft bristles will reduce any dis- comfort, thereby improving patient compliance. Audit In an audit of 93 patients with pocket depths of 3.5 – 10mm (BPE 3 or 4), Warwick Den- tistry found that 98 per cent of subjects using the Gum- saver® system experienced a significant improvement. After just six months of us- ing the Gumsaver® system, a staggering 63 per cent of sub- jects presented BPE scores of 0. In other words, their gum disease had been completely eradicated. The Gumsaver team have just returned from presenting this data at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Gen- eral Session in Brazil and received wide acclaim from their global colleagues. Invented by Leamington- Spa based dentist Dr Hani Mo- stafa, Gumsaver® has been designed to tackle one of the UK’s most significant public health challenges today. Inevitability “As a practicing dentist for 14 years, I have always been frustrated by the inevitability of tooth loss amongst patients with periodontal disease. Since 2006, I have been ad- vocating the use of a narrow headed inter-dental brush and sub-gingival oral hygiene techniques, as taught by Phil- ip Ower and the late Graham Smart. I have designed Gum- saver® to enable the dentist, therapist and hygienist and more importantly the patient, to clean below the gum-line, thereby removing sub-gingi- val pathogenic bacteria from the root surface.” DT Gumsaver® unveils a brand new oral health system designed to treat and prevent gum disease Gumsaver®