Our Dental Blog

Have you heard of composite bonding yet? If you’ve not, it’s basically where dentists are using white filling material to add to patients’ teeth in order to improve their smiles. Sometimes to achieve the best results, dentists are spending many hours doing this by a free-hand technique which can be a little daunting to the patient and dentist.

We decided to make a short video for our patients to keep you up to date with the ever changing times that we are living through.

Dentistry is an ever changing realm of artistry and technology. When your dentist tells you about a rubber dam for the first time, patients might wonder 'what on earth' they are talking about. This article intends to explain to our patients why we might recommend a rubber dam for certain procedures and what it is.

We would like to thank all our patients for their patience and understanding at this very difficult time of extended practice closure. Headless Cross is following the policy as instructed by the British Dental Association (BDA) where all dental practices in the UK were instructed to stop face to face meetings with patients in late March. Although no date has yet been given when dental practices can re-open, we are hopeful that this may be sometime in June 2020 but the final decision depends on the advice from our Regulatory Public Bodies.

In this article, I take you through a common choice in deciding between porcelain and composite to cosmetically restore front teeth. The patient here decided to restore a single tooth using composite. It’s only a very simple case and she was really made up with the results.

Being a long established dental practice in the heart of Redditch, we realise the connections that we have in this family area. We all want our children to grow up to know how to care for their teeth and so that they have healthy smiles for a lifetime. It is because of this, we believe that we have an important responsibility to help promote and educate within the community.

We’ve all seen what plastic is doing to our planet. Programmes like David Attenborough’s ‘Blue Planet’ are making us wake up to the impact that the single use plastic culture is having. This in turn, is making us want to change our habits and switch to reusable products and disposing of our waste responsibly.