Castle Park Dental

           “The Tooth And Nothing But The Tooth”

                By Chris “Dr Smile Maker” Branfield

          Put A Lid On It!

Hello, I hope that you are well.  It’s been another busy month with Castle Park at two fundraisers for our Dental Mavericks Charity. The first was in Leeds and we were all dressed as pirates.  The week after we had our own 70’s Boogey Night at Armstrong’s in Beverley.  Thanks Sally Anne, this is a great venue.  Thanks also to all our amazing sponsors who donated prizes.  We raised just over £1000 on the night.  Amazing. 100% goes to the charity with “Nowt Taken Out”, just like the Hovis advert.

Mucky Toilet Talk

Now, I don’t want put anybody off his or her breakfast, lunch or tea/dinner, but I’m going to talk toilets.

It’s very common these days to have a bathroom with a toilet close to the washbasin and therefore your toothbrush.  It has been shown that when you flush the toilet with the lid up that is a great big aerosol or spray like the toilet sneezing.   

It has been suggested that a toothbrush should be a minimum of 6 feet away.  That may be quite difficult or even impossible unless it is kept in a different room.  My en suite shower room is compact to say the least so no chance of a 6 feet distance.

Nasty Beasties

You can imagine that there are a lot of nasty beasty bacteria in the toilet bowl.  One such beastie is Enterococcus Faecalis.  Sometimes a root canal treatment on a tooth can fail and research has shown that this can often be due the bacteria species Enterococcus Faecalis and this is a difficult bacteria to get rid of in a tooth.  The bacteria is not naturally in the mouth so must have come from somewhere.  One obvious way to get there is from toilet to toothbrush.  So what can you do?                                                                                                                               

“Dr. Smile Maker Top Tips”

Put the lid down on the toilet before you flush. This not only helps keeping the tooth brushes clean but also think about towels and everything else.  You really don’t want to breath in those aerosols.

If you have a cupboard maybe put the brushes away.  Or you can put a travel cover on the toothbrush.  Keeping the toothbrush in a different room is ideal but a bit of a faff.

All food for thought though eh?

Feng Shui

I worked with a nice lady years ago who was into Feng Shui.  Apparently the area of the house on the far left from the entrance is the money or wealth area. If the toilet is there then you could be flushing your money away. This is another reason to put a lid on it!

C’mon You Hull

The football is getting exciting. As I write Hull City are top of the League but have played an extra game.  Keep going lads you can do it.

Until next time.   Take care and be good.  

Chris Branfield is Principal Dentist at Castle Park Dental Care, Castle Villa, 28 Castle Road, Cottingham, telephone 01482 772550.  He has been in dental practice for 23 years and has a special interest in life changing, pain free dentistry with dental implants, rapid teeth straightening and cosmetic dentistry. And, not only that Chris is founder member and trustee of Dental Mavericks charity- ending the daily dental pain of Moroccan kids. For more patient success stories and Chris’s charity work go here now www.castleparkdental.co.uk