The High Street Dental Practice

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NEWSLETTER DID IT HURT? The latest results of our ‘pain-free’ survey show that the percentage of ‘ouches’ remains the same at 1% (which amounts to one patient last month). I know we can do better and I promise that we will keep trying.

Lindsey Our best wishes go to Lindsey, our hygienist, who is presently recovering from a hip operation. Amongst her many talents, Lindsey is also a black belt in Karate so I expect her to be back with us soon.

Pain Free

A Bit

Ouch

8% 1%

91%

At a recent practice meeting, Kate and Debbie arranged a Pilates session for our team. It’s much harder than it looks.

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& The Syrian Refugees Next month will be another fi r s t f o r t h e D e n t a l Mavericks. We have been allowed permission to travel to Greece in partnership with The Health-Point Foundation. You can read more about them here.

It is estimated that about 1000 refugees make their way to the shores of Greece every day. And that many of these people - children as well as adults are in need of urgent dental treatment.

During last month’s visit to Morocco, we were able to treat adults as well as children. On previous occasions, we had only been given permission to treat children.

I can't express how much of a relief this is as many of them travel for several hours on foot to come and see us. And, to turn them away has always been heart breaking. As news of this got out in the mountains, our makeshift clinic was often inundated with people to treat.

On several occasions, we were forced to lock the entrance gates to our clinics because of the rush to be seen.

A ‘queue’ waiting outside our clinic

Our destination is Thessaloniki, however, we have been forewarned that the Greek military may move the refugees to another area at short notice. So, there are just 3 dentists travelling together with one nurse - my daughter.

At 96, this is my oldest patient so far

At the week’s end, we had treated over 1000 people.

Once again, thank you for all of your support.

Jas Sandhu

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"To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."

Soren Kierkegaard

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