Hygiene visits are your best defence against gum disease, as we will clean away harmful bacteria that are suffocating your gums and causing the onset of gum disease.
Quickfire Guide Dental Hygiene
Your hygienist will help you to:
Our team of caring, gentle hygienists are supportive individuals, who won’t ever judge you or criticise you for not having flossed or brushed enough.
When you visit for a hygienist appointment, we want you to go away feeling better about your oral health and smile than when you walked into the practice.
Aside from providing the vital treatment of getting rid of bacteria along your gum line and on your teeth, your hygienist is a great source of advice if you need help with flossing and brushing techniques or if you want to change your eating habits to avoid gum disease.
Each member of our talented dental hygienist team entered the field of dentistry to help others maintain a healthy lifestyle and to live their best life. They are a truly caring bunch, with extensive clinical knowledge of gum health.
Our very own Juliette Reeves has been recognised as an award -winner, having been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dental Hygiene and Therapy in 2014, as well as the prestigious Dr Gerald Leatherman Award in October 2015. Although she is very humble about it all, we are happy to tell anyone who will listen about how amazing she is!
AirFlow with Lauren Welton
As much as we wish it wasn’t so, it is necessary to see both your dentist and your hygienist because each individual performs different treatments that benefit your health.
Your hygienist is a custodian for your gum health – their main responsibility is to get rid of plaque, and this is something every single person on earth needs to have performed – everyone develops some degree of lingering plaque on their teeth.
All of our dentists at Bancroft Dentistry opt for Airflow when having their own hygienist appointment to have plaque removed from their teeth – we swear by this cleaning method, as it removes almost 100% of plaque, which just isn’t possible using hand scaling equipment alone.
Airflow is:
