Fight tooth decay with water

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Giving back to our local sporting teams

The Muswellbrook Junior Cricket Club were presented with water bottles for the 2019-2020 Cricket completion and The Muswellbrook Little Athletic’s Club.

On the sporting field, training and eating well are the highest priority - staying hydrated and oral health is often forgotten about. To help send and encourage the H2O and dental check up messages we have issued the club with these awesome water bottles.

Good luck to everyone completing in this years season.

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Christmas 2019

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Hawaiian Cruise

The team had a “whale” of a time at this years Hawaiian cruise Christmas party in Nelsons Bay.

Thank you to the crew from Moonshaddow Cruises for their fantastic hospitality and all our lovely patients for making 2019 a year to remember.

We can not wait to see you all in 2020.

2019 Race season

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Ladies day and Gold Sponsors Gala Dinner

The 2019 Race season has started for the team with the ever so glamours Ladies Day. As always it was a fun filled day with fashion on the fields, laughter and the official Happy Tooth Muswellbrook race.

The Gold sponsors Gala Dinner was again another successful night out at Muswellbrook RSL club. The team were lucky enough to draw Melbourne Cup as race day sponsors in 2020.

We hope to see you down and around at the track!

Fairy Floss for a good cause

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Msuwellbrook South Public School Fete 2019

On Friday afternoon Caitlin, Shannon, Nikki, Emma, Tiarne and Sophie attended the Muswellbrook South School Fete.

The team sold fairy floss for a gold coin donation and raised a whooping $240.00 with proccedes going directly back into the Muswellbrook South Public School.

With every fairy floss purchase was an Oral Health Promotion bags. This is to show kids importance of good oral health after consuming sometimes food.

Here at The Happy Tooth Muswellbrook we like attending events like this in our community. If you have an event coming up and would like us to attend please call the surgery on (02)6541 1111 to discuss your event.

PINK up your town - McGrath Foundation

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month !

Towns all across Australia are ‘Pinking Up’ for the McGrath Foundation this October, as it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It’s the month we invite everyone to ‘Pink Up’ to raise funds for the McGrath Foundation to show support for individuals and their families experiencing breast cancer. The funds raised help fund McGrath Breast Care Nurses throughout the country.

How to get involved? https://www.mcgrathfoundation.com.au/get-involved/

Make a donation today at the Practice or online: https://www.mcgrathfoundation.com.au/ways-to-give/donate/

Pop in and say hi to the team in your pink attire.

Read more about the event in our newspaper article from the Muswellbrook Chronicle: https://www.muswellbrookchronicle.com.au/story/6418015/happy-tooths-pink-pride-for-breast-cancer-month/

The future of dental cleaning has arrived

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EMS Airflow machine

EMS Airflow machine

Introducing our new Airflow cleaning machine

Have you had a painful dental clean in the past? We have heard you and thus the arrival of the new Airflow machine.

How is it different from a traditional clean?

  • Uses low noise and vibrations for Patient comfort

  • Gentle application of kinetic energy

  • No scratching of the tooth surface

  • Warm water and powder

  • Cleans and polishes in one single procedure

  • Removes biofilm and stains on teeth

The machine can be used in the following ways:

  • In the tooth pit and fissures

  • Around Orthodontic brackets and implants

  • On restorations

  • To clean both adult and baby teeth, including the tongue and palate

Be sure to book your next Hygiene appointment with the Airflow machine, please request with the receptionist when making your appointment.

Implementing and maintaining a sterile field in the work place

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Surgical Draping

In the Dental practice setting up and maintaining a sterile field is apparent for both patient care and treatment success.

We always aim to stay on top of changes to the guidelines within the industry.

On Friday the team participated in a Surgical Draping course. Thank you to Cathy Schafer from C & L Dental Education Consultants for such an informative and hands on presentation.

Dental Assistants Steph and Lucy, with Cathy Schafer and Dr Paul O’Neill

Dental Assistants Steph and Lucy, with Cathy Schafer and Dr Paul O’Neill

Cerec - One Visit Dentistry

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We have a new toy!

The Happy Tooth is always trying to keep up with modern technology and have upgraded one of our machines to the Cerec Milling Unit. If you have had a crown made in the past, you would know the long process of having to have a bulky temporary in for up to 2 weeks while your crown is being designed in a lab off site. The Happy Tooth offers SINGLE VISIT crowns!! What does this mean? It means we can scan, design and mill your crown all in house on the same day, so there is no need for a second appointment. You will walk in for your preparation and walk out with a brand new crown! If this is something that interest you, please call the surgery on (02) 4991 5000 to arrange a consultation.

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Project Yeti - Nepal Dental Aid Mission 2019

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Dental Assistant Sam with Monks in the Clinic at Kopan Monastery 2019.

Dental Assistant Sam with Monks in the Clinic at Kopan Monastery 2019.

Sam and Nikki headed off on a life changing experience to Nepal in 2019.

They worked with Project Yeti as Dental Aid for two weeks at the Kopan Monastery.

During their time at the Monastery; the girls got to experience the Buddhist religion, strict routine for the Monks and the Monastic lifestyle. The girls are very thankful to all the Patients at The Happy Tooth, the Muswellbrook local community/business and Dr Alexys Ward and Dr David, that made generous donations to help get them there.

“Real happiness in life starts when you begin to cherish others.”

About Project Yeti

The Project was founded in 2012 by Dr George Manos and his wife Helen. Dr Manos and Helen aimed to provide dental care and oral health education in Kathmandu. The clinic is within the Kopan Monastery which is near Boudhanath, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal.

Want to help? Dental Operators and trained support staff are highly sort after.

Providing Dental Treatment in rural NSW

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Dental Aid 2019

Meg and Dental Therapist Sam volunteered with Poche Centre for Indigenous Health

The team will be provided Dental Treatment at the Boggabilla Community Health Center and Toomelah Public School.

To find out more about how you can get involved with Poche – head over to their web site;
https://sydney.edu.au/…/the-poche-centre-for-indigenous-hea…

2019 Bengalla Upper Hunter Show

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Team members from left to right: Steph, Aleisha, Dr Lucy Sun, Sam, Katrina and Kerry.

Team members from left to right: Steph, Aleisha, Dr Lucy Sun, Sam, Katrina and Kerry.

Petting Zoo fun for all

The team had a wonderful time interacting with the Muswellbrook community at this years show.  They were busy handing out Free Oral Health show bags and managed to seek in some time with our  cute,fluffy and scaly friends from Oakvale Farm and Fauna World. 

A big thank you to every one who stopped to say hi and we look forward to seeing you all at the 2020 Upper Hunter Show.  

Giving back to our community

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New drink bottles for The Muswellbrook Mamba’s


We are helping the Mamba’s continue a healthy lifestyle by drinking water from their new drink bottles.
Wishing all the players a safe and successful 2019 season.

The team lends a helping had at The Red Door Community Kitchen.

The Red Door Community Kitchen offer FREE evening meal’s on Tuesday’s between 5.30 to 6.30 pm at the Uniting Church Hall. All are welcome. The team have been busy lending a hand to serve the Tuesday evening meals. If you wish to volunteer with The Red Door Community Kitchen you need to have a valid Working With Children Check and can contact them via their Facebook page.

Have your teeth done now, pay later!

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Did you hear? We have teamed up with Zip Pay to offer this wonderful service to our Patients

Eligibility, the person who is taking out the finance plan must meet the following criteria:

 Over the age of 18

Australian Citizen or Permanent resident

 Have a valid Australian mobile phone number and email address

Have a bank account/ debit card for regular payments

 Have a verified Facebook, PayPal or LinkedIn account in your own name.

 If you wish to use the payment plan option please advise the Dentist at your next visit or call the surgery on (02) 6541 1111 to discuss booking an appointment using the service.

 NOTE - Please apply for your Zip Pay account PRIOR to your appointment, via the Zip website;

 https://account.zipmoney.com.au

 

 

Christmas 2018

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Team on the lose for Christmas celebrations

The team escaped from the Newcastle Escape Rooms and into Rustica for dinner.

Such fun was had by all.

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Ladies Day 2018

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Muswellbrook Race Club Ladies Day

A fun day was had by all at the Muswellbrook Race Club, Ladies Day.

Thank you to Muswellbrook RSL club for hosting a memorable event. 

The draw for the 2018-2019 year of racing was held at the annual gold sponsors dinner with the team walking away with sponsoring the Denman Cup. 

We hope to see you all down at the track!

Giving back and showing our support

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Daffodil Day, Jeans for Jeans day and Red Nose Day

The team have had a busy few months raising much needed funds and awareness for charity. 

We think that they looked funny in red noses, pretty in jeans and mellow in yellow!

Such a great effort was put in by all and we would like to thank all of our Patients and the local Muswellbrook community for their support. 

Implementing Sterile Procedures in the Dental Practice

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Surgical draping 

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Sam and Tiarne have been down to the Australian Dental Association in Sydney, learning how to Implementing sterile procedures at The Happy Tooth.

Training topics included;

  • Surgical set-up
  • Clean vs Sterile
  • Correct hand scrubbing techniques
  • Optimal sterilization and wrapping of surgical instruments
  • Surgical protocol in Implantology
  • Sharps and biological waste control

The girls can now assist the practitioner and/or assistant to master the skills required to efficiently scrub-up, drape, assist or perform oral surgery in a safe environment and follow set surgical protocol.