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Have you ever heard of Rehab4Addiction?

chris@precisionpr.co.uk — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 08:50:02 +0000

Advice for those seeking recovery from addiction

A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a gentleman. He was asking me to provide a link to his website from the website of my band. Normally I consign such emails to the ‘blocked sender’ list. But this one caught my interest because of the song he mentioned, namely our recording of ‘When all you have is a hammer’ by Gretchen Peters.

For those unfamiliar with the song, it’s about a military veteran who deals with trauma he suffered by hitting the bottle.

So, I read his email again, called him and had a chat. I politely declined his initial request, and instead offered to write this blog post. Because, frankly, the song, his choice of it, and his backstory all resonated with events in the lives of people I know – including family.

So, what’s the score?

The gentleman’s name is Oliver Clark, and he helped set-up Rehab 4 Addiction to provide advice for people seeking drug and alcohol rehab clinics in the UK. Oliver told me that he got involved in the charity because of his own personal experiences.

Being a bit unthinking sometimes, I used to have an unsympathetic attitude towards addiction and alcoholism. But recently, I’ve realised how much damage was done to some of my family members by a crime committed against them. That’s led to a couple of them showing serious addictive tendencies. And then I thought about my wider family and realised that several others have had mental health problems and issues with alcohol, again in reaction to things that have happened to them through none of their own fault.

In fact, berievements and being on the receiving end of a serious crime has damaged several people I know, leaving mental scars such as depression and anxiety. And while I’m not aware of any family member having a drugs habit as a result, I do know a couple who consume more than a sensible amount of beer and whiskey. Others have had relationships collapse, trouble holding on to jobs and difficulties with education as a result of trauma.

I’m a fairly ordinary sort of person from an ordinary sort of family. So I have little doubt that my family’s experience of addiction and mental illness is nothing unusual.

So I thought I’d find out a bit more about Oliver’s charity, and help raise awareness (and SEO scores) by writing this blog post.

What does Rehab 4 Addiction do?

In a nutshell, Rehab 4 Addiction offers a free hotline dedicated to helping those suffering from drug, alcohol and mental health problems. Rehab 4 Addiction was founded in 2011 by people who overcame drug and alcohol addiction themselves. You can contact Rehab 4 Addiction on 0800 140 4690.

The charity facilitates admissions into over forty rehab clinics across the United Kingdom and internationally. Its advisors have extensive knowledge of a huge selection of alcohol rehab and drug rehab services throughout the UK and abroad. They create rehab programmes which cater to specific needs.

Mental health awareness

At the time I’m writing this it seems everybody (or at least every media outlet) is talking about mental health. Yet it still seems to be a taboo subject – somebody else’s problem. Well, I don’t think it is.

I’ve suffered anxiety and depression, so have several other members of my extended family, and some have resorted to alcohol to help forget the things that torment them. And I’m sure if you look around you’ll see people you know who have or are suffering mental health issues (major or minor). I think organisations such as Rehab 4 Addiction offer a very important source of help for those who can no longer cope with (or hide) their problems.

I’d like to thank Oliver Clark for contacting me. I hope my blog post helps to raise attention to Rehab 4 Addiction for both those who need its work and those who might like to support the charity.

If you would like to comment on the work of this charity and others performing a similar role, please contact me.

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Two great articles on Pearl’s site

Cary Cray-Webb — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:42:29 +0000

Oh My Lord! They use our articles

We recently wrote two new articles for our client BHA Software which have been posted on their Pearl dental software site to fuel their ongoing social media campaign.

http://www.pearldentalsoftware.com/oh-my-lord-they-use-pearl/

http://www.pearldentalsoftware.com/nurse-training-retention-time-act/

If you are looking for specialist content that sounds special but doesn’t necessarily sound ‘specialist’ please get in contact.

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6 Tips on Managing Children in a Dental Surgery

chris@precisionpr.co.uk — Sat, 09 Sep 2017 11:34:13 +0000

Ideas from Dental Nurses who are also Mums

(By Charlotte Taylor)

This article has been moved to the new Pearl Dental Software website. You can read it at ; http://www.pearldentalsoftware.com/6-tips-on-managing-children-in-a-dental-surgery/

About the Author

Charlotte Taylor is Customer Services manager at Pearl Dental Software and can be contacted at : +44 116 275 9995 or charlotte.taylor@bhasoftware.com

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Using imaging technologies to enhance patient care

chris@precisionpr.co.uk — Mon, 08 May 2017 14:02:16 +0000

Don’t forget the patient

(by Dr Iulian Popescu)

Modern dental imaging technology is amazing.

We now have digital x-rays that throw an image to the dentist’s computer screen in seconds. ‘OPG’ machines can create a panoramic radiograph (a 2d image of the patient’s whole dentition). We even have digital scanners that can create a 3-D map of the inside surfaces of a patient’s mouth.

Behind the scenes, the latest generation of computer aided design software (CAD) help develop digital models. These can drive milling machines and additive manufacturing devices (3D-printers) with the near-perfect accuracy needed to create the tiny veneers, inlays and even crowns that we use.

The advantages to dentists and dental practice managers are obvious; quicker diagnosis, reduced lab-costs, faster turn-around, better throughput. But what does this mean for patients?

Appointments need to be convenient for the patient as well as the dentist (photo: MyDentist – Edinburgh)

Booking a visit to the dentist

For a patient, a visit to the dentist starts with booking an appointment. Now believe it or not, some patients have other things to do. Yet at the moment, many practices set times for different types of appointment based on the type of work required. This is often driven by when the courier calls to deliver and collect lab work.

A patient with young children at school may have to fit appointments around available child care. Or maybe that patient has a long commute (two hours is not uncommon for people working in London), so even the first appointment in the morning means taking at least half-a-day off work.

A practice that can break the link between the arrival of ‘the lab man’ and the appointment diary will give patients far greater flexibility in when they can attend.

Fewer visits

What if the prosthetic were created on the same day it was prescribed? Wouldn’t it be a good thing for a patient to have a crown prep and fit on the same day?

While it’s unlikely that many practices will be able to create the device while the patient is in the chair, it is possible to create many the same day. A patient could have the prep in the morning and the fit in the afternoon. That would indeed make a huge difference to patients with long commutes – a large part of the population near big cities such as London.

For the dentist and practice this also has the clear advantage of quicker patient turnaround and therefore both improved cash-flow and potentially higher patient volumes.

Sirona CEREC inLAB MC XL Milling & inEOS Red Scanning Dental Units (source: Novadentals.com)

Convenience and imaging

Today’s society is very ‘convenience conscious’. We see it within dentistry, not only as patients struggling to find time in their diaries for appointments, but also as demand peaks just before Christmas, Easter and the summer holiday months; people don’t want the inconvenience of toothache during theses festivities.

Dental professionals we get very excited about our fabulous imaging technologies, and all credit to the manufacturers such as Kodak, Carestream, Dentsply Sirona and Roland (and others) for their fabulous inventions and developments.

However, since 1980 when CEREC (Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics, or CEramic REConstruction) was first developed by W. Mörmann and M. Brandestini at the University of Zurich, the ultimate beneficiary should always be the patient.

As use of advanced imaging and CAD/CAM technology becomes more widespread, dental practices will need to remember this if they wish to be successful. I believe strongly that our convenience conscious society is already moving to a position where it expects patient care to extend beyond the dental surgery into all aspects of the relationship – and that includes appointment and treatment management.

We would love to hear your opinions and experiences about the differences being made by advanced imaging and modelling technologies. Or call us if you have a technology that you are bringing to market in the UK.

About the writer

Iuian Popescu is a registered dentist, currently practising in Sudbury, Suffolk in the East of England.

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