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Most recent changes

  • We have introduced a plan specifically for those aged 60 and over: the 60plus plan.
  • Extra treatment discount is available for those on the maintenance plan, allowing you to increase savings from 10% up to 20%.
  • Ray Steggles has been appointed as Honorary Dental Surgeon to Worcestershire County Cricket Club. This involves duties, not only of dealing with cricket related dental injuries, but also considering the dental risks involved in training and playing cricket and suggesting ways these may be reduced. This is the first such appointment in the country. To fulfil these duties and extend it to the local community we are planning to introduce a sports injury clinic to deal with dental trauma and prevention. Watch this space.
  • The recession concentrates minds on spending only what is necessary, so we have devised a package to help reduce costs of dental treatment, whilst maintaining health.
  • Press releases about Ray's new treatment (see opposite) for advanced periodontal disease are found at Worcester News and Worcester Standard.
  • We are now using dental video clips to provide more information about treatment we provide and other background details. You will find them on various pages throughout the website, where they are relevant. There is a full list on the video clips page
  • You may have heard in the news about theoretical risks of passing vCJD from infected root-canal instruments and new guidelines issued by the Department of Health to not re-use the instruments on other patients. You can be assured that all root-filling instruments are not re-used, and at this practice this has been the case for many years.
  • From May 2007, included free in their maintenance plan all current patients are enrolled on our Dental HELP assessment scheme.
  • Fresh Start Programme. We aim to make treatment the most patient friendly possible, ridding your mouth of tooth decay by non-invasive means. A relaxing way to receive treatment, no more uncomfortable than brushing your teeth. 
  • We now place crowns and inlays in one visit, creating them in ceramics with our CEREC 3 machine . We achieve the utmost in quality, convenience, and aesthetics. Only those on the monthly payment plan get discounts for this treatment.

New treatment for gum disease

Ray Steggles has received top marks in his medical sciences degree (MSc with Distinction). His studies led him to develop a new approach to understanding bacterial infections by considering their organisational behaviour.

In some ways similar to the factors controlling the behaviour of large groups of animals, birds, fish and insects as they swarm, migrate, or combine in large groups as a protective strategy.

Large numbers of bacteria withstand our efforts to remove them more successfully than small groups. Both gum disease and tooth decay involve billions of bacteria formed into films, known as dental plaque.

We need special strategies to deal with these. Although the simplest is effective toothbrushing to keep the numbers small, these diseases affect almost all people at some time during their lives.

Our understanding is changing approaches to treating established infections of the gums allowing us to invent and introduce QSIANT.