5 Secrets That You Never Knew About Dentistry and Dentures.

1. All Dental Care Professionals in the U.K. are registered with the General Dental Council that includes Dental Nurses and everyone in the professional Team.

2. Clinical Dental Technicians are the only Dental registrants who hold a specialist qualification in the provision and fabrication of Dentures. You might be surprised as most people think that Dentists make dentures. Clinical Dental Technicians are the best kept secret about Dentistry in the U.K. You would think that the Government would have announced this to the public, no its a secret!!

3. Clinical dental Technicians are the only registrants qualified to actually fabricate a Denture and carry out the clinical work involved.

4. Clinical Dental Technicians in the UK graduate from The Royal College Of Surgeons, London. Their training and study is extensive as they first have to be registered dental technicians before they can start the C.D.T courses. This means that the existing registered Clinical Dental Technicians in most cases have completed from six to eight years of studying in total, before graduating from The Royal College Of Surgeons. As you can imagine, the hours that Clinical Dental Technicians take to train and qualify are more than those required to become a Dentist.This might be difficult to accept, but clinical dental technicians spend markedly more hours in the classroom and the laboratory in the study and field of Dentures and Prosthetics than Dentists. Of course Dentists training is different since “Dentists” concentrate on preserving and maintaining the natural teeth. Their education only touches on dentures. Many Clinical Dental Technicians are beginning to think that this is why their patients have far better outcomes.

5. Clinical Dental Technicians and Dentists are working together for the benefit of patients.It’s becoming more common to find integrated dental centres, where dentists, clinical dental technicians, and other dental care professionals are working side-by-side. Many dental centres now try to provide multi-specialty approaches to treatment.

Stephen Judge has his own dental centre at My Brilliant Smile Dental, 2 Green Hedges Avenue, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 1DZ tel 01342 325522, to book a free consultation with Stephen and the Dental Team. www.mybrilliantsmile.com .