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Claire Berry highlights how easy and satisfying a hygienist’s job is when a dental practice and clinician values their work. Something happened to me at work the other day that made me realise I had made it. Unfortunately not in a superstar or famous kind of way. In the: ‘I feel like my practice truly…
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With a growth in popularity, Claire Berry explores whether virtual consultations are the new way forward for dental advice. When the world was thrown into lockdown and dental centres were forced to close, it meant a sudden halt to general treatment and cancelling our patients. In some cases this meant cancelling in the midst of…
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With lockdown keeping patients away, Claire Berry introduces the innovative virtual online oral health clinic from the BSDHT and Oral-B. We have been in lockdown now for over 10 weeks. I can’t help but think about all my patients who I usually see on a three monthly basis. It makes me sad that there are…
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Claire Berry discusses her experience at three different award evenings – and what it’s like to be among the winners. How does it feel to have won an award? It is a great feeling to win an industry award – nothing beats it. We work so hard and so to be recognised for your efforts…
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Claire Berry discusses her hobbies away from dentistry and why having a hobby away from your profession is so important. Please introduce yourself My name is Claire Berry and I’m a dental hygienist in the north of England between Leeds and Doncaster. I qualified in 2009 whilst I was serving in the Army, which I…
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Claire Berry explores mindfulness toothbrushing and how it could just help keep patients on the straight and narrow for the long term. Mindfulness…with toothbrushing? I know what you are thinking and no – lockdown hasn’t got me going crazy, read on! We’ve all got a bit more time during lockdown, including our patients. So now…
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Now is a great opportunity to spread awareness and come back bigger and better than before, Claire Berry says. It’s a worrying time for everyone, including dental hygienists and therapists at the moment. You don’t need me to tell you that being self-employed and unable to work is a worst nightmare come true. I am…
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Claire Berry explains why empty dental practices are the perfect location for COVID-19 antibody testing. Dental centres across the UK are closing their doors or only remaining open to treat emergency cases. This leaves an abundance of medically trained dental professionals temporarily redundant. There is an opportunity to utilise these medically trained teams and clinical…
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Zoning appointments can help change the behaviour of your patients and change attitudes, Claire Berry says. Newly qualified dental hygienists who have finished university with high hopes often contact me. A few stressful years dash these hopes as they try to adapt to time constraints while dealing with pressures from practice owners, pressure from patients,…
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Claire Berry explains how she realised her potential as a hygienist and started to grow and invest in her business. Being a hygienist can be an extremely rewarding career. It is one that I am hugely proud of and passionate about. But it can also be terribly frustrating at times. When I first entered this…
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Claire Berry explains why she first got into dentistry and what keeps driving her to do more. What first got you into dentistry? I was serving in the Intelligence Corps in the Army. But I decided I wanted a career that would stand me in good stead within the forces and then when I eventually…
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Are hygienists being fully utilised in today’s practices? Claire Berry gives her top tips on how to refer patients to a dental hygienist. In 2015 periodontal cases (44.7%), implant cases (28.8%) and cases of peri-implantitis (5.5%) fronted the top 20 UK claims, Dental Protection figures show. By now these figures are likely to have changed…
