Illume — 'Your brighter path to dental care'

The week 23 -28 April 2012 has been declared the National Stop Snoring Week 2012 !

If you watched the  BBC News Breakfast programme this morning you might have seen the report on old wives' tales about cures for snoring ranging from rubbing toothpaste under your nose, gargling with garlic water to eating horseraddish. The volunteer in the video clip  testing all these rather odd methods found that none of them worked for her. The BBC News Breakfast show also invited a cured snorer and a sleep expert contributing to talk about snoring and treatments to cure snoring. Unfortunately only cure for snoring they discussed was a noisy mouth breathing device.

Rest assured there are other less extreme cures for snoring that we can offer and that work very well in our experience.

We offer a snore guard device that is tailor-made for you and we already have many very happy clients and even happier partners who are now enjoying restful and quiet nights!

Ring 01242 522230 to book your consultation at Illume today and visit our website to read more about snore guards (click here)!

At Illume we have a quarterly team training session and at our recent one we were discussing trends and changes in dentistry and thought we would share some with you. Although we all work in dentistry we were quite surprised at the statistics and think you may be too!

Recent figures from a dental information service show that 19% of women and 10% of men suffer from extreme dental anxiety and 54% of women and 39% of men are nervous about going to the dentist.

For us at Illume these figures are quite surprising as some of our clients have told us they would rather come and see us than their hairdresser! That is praise indeed!

A recent survey from the British Dental Health Foundation showed that nearly half the population has admitted to recurrently neglecting their tooth brushing. At Illume we are passionate about our role in helping you to stay dentally fit. Our dentists do not like removing teeth and see it as a last resort. We are here to educate, treat and monitor the health of your teeth and gums. We will give you all the support we can – however the final outcome is in your hands by carrying out a good daily oral hygiene routine guided by our hygienists.

In 1968 (and some of the team were around then!)38% of adults in the UK had no teeth whereas only 6% of adults have no teeth now, so here is clear evidence that the advice of dentists and hygienists is being followed!

And this is the research we like most of all. It was published in the American Journal of Orthodontics in 2011 and shows that people with straight teeth are rated more popular, intelligent and with better leadership qualities than those with a crooked smile. Now as the Non Clinical Director at Illume and having worn lingual braces to straighten my teeth just over a year ago I whole heartedly agree with that!

by Alison Rumney, Non-Clinical Director at Illume