Our colleagues Pamela Wood from our Glasgow dental clinic has great cause for celebration today.

She’s just heard she passed her dental nurse examinations! We’re all very pleased about her news as we know how much commitment she’s made to her studies and we’re aware of how hard she worked to achieve that goal.

We’re absolutely delighted for you Pam!

Dental nurse: Pamela Wood

Meet Andrew McGregor, latest team member at the clinic. Andrew is a specialist orthodontist.
He’ll be offering adult orthodontics at our clinic.

He graduated from Glasgow University in 2002 with degrees in Pathology and Dentistry and attained Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgeons in Edinburgh in 2004.
In 2005 he began a two year stint lecturing in Oral Surgery at Sydney University.
Once back in the UK he commenced three year training in orthodontics at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, passing his Masters degree and Membership in Orthodontics exam in 2010.

Andrew McGregor: Specialist orthodontist

Now as well as the full range of general, cosmetic and reconstructive dentistry and dental implant surgery, we can offer range of orthodontic treatments and braces including aligners, lingual and ceramic appliances.
Welcome Andrew!

When planning the clinic, we decided to install the Ewoo Pax Duo Cone Beam CT Scanner. We have been using the system for some 14 months now and have noticed a growing number of referrals for these scans from colleagues who feel its use may benefit the patients under their care.

In addition, with more scans being taken we provide a facility for the reporting of these scans where appropriate – and this is carried out by our consultant colleague Mr Neil Heath.

The Ewoo system has many advantages: the variety of field of view options means that only the areas of interest need be exposed to radiation and the software planning element is superb.

Together with Ewoo and given the success of our previous open evening in June last year, we have organised a CBCT evening in the clinic.  The evening will be relatively informal, free of charge and will comprise a general introduction to CBCT scans in dentistry, followed by valuable input from Mr Neil Heath, Consultant in Dental Radiology, and Mr Paul Taylor from Ewoo. Verifiable CPD certificates will be provided for those in attendance.

The evening is planned for Thurs 2^nd Feb from 630-830pm in our Glasgow dental clinic at 154 Hyndland Road, Hyndland, Glasgow, G12 9HZ. Please contact 0141 339 7579 to reserve your place .

We hope that this evening will provide an ideal opportunity for referring dentists or colleagues to gain further insight into CBCT scanning in dentistry, commonly detected anomalies and what we should be reporting. In addition, it will be a good informal networking evening with opportunity to discuss any relevant cases.

Clinical cleanliness and disinfection are of paramount importance to the team here at Philip Friel Advanced Dentistry.

We will wash our hands up to 30 or 40 times – or even more – a day as part of our clinic disinfection regime.

We’re now using a three-pronged regime featuring Schulke soap, cleanser and hand lotion products.

Our commitment underlines the importance we place on our disinfection programme in the clinic.

The products we use in our dinsinfection regime

Three of our team have taken part in a feature in the latest edition of the Scottish Dental Magazine.

The feature is headlined “Who’s who in Scottish Dentistry” and focused on a number of professionals which the magazine described as ‘key players’.

Dr Philip Friel, Dr Stuart McLaren and Dr Neil Heath were ‘our trio’ who participated.

Yesterday was a fantastic day to end a fantastic year.

Great effort all round and lots of appreciation. The clinic is now closed until 4th January.
Every best wish to all of the team, patients, families and friends for the festive season.

Be safe and happy.

Full emergency cover is in place for all member patients and full details of this are available by calling the Glasgow clinic. Best wishes to all.

Took a couple of hours away from the clinic yesterday to tackle the Christmas gift buying.

Did a twin city assault – buying some in Edinburgh and the rest in Glasgow.

Now just got to work out hiding places…

I’m sure there will come the day when our two boys make it their mission to hunt out Christmas pressies before Santa comes to collect them for his annual delivery!

Meantime just got to make sure my wife Stephanie doesn’t uncover her pressies.

Our friends at Dentistry Scotland magazine have sent this link for their video from recent Gleneagles awards event.

Our award-winning team features quite far on in the film and I’m ‘starring’ in the last section with a full talking role!

For any of you who don’t know we were fortunate enough to be named Best Private Practice and Most Attractive Practice in the competition. Our dental implant nurse Kasia was also highly commended in the Most Outstanding Individual category.

We are all very pleased with the results from these prestigious awards.

We’re always delighted to receive feedback from patients and many have written testimonials which they’re happy to share with others. We appreciate the time these Glasgow clinic patients take in writing their pieces.

Here’s a testimonial we’ve just received from a 66 year old female patient who underwent dental implant surgery at the clinic. She wrote…

“Dr Philip Friel is an outstanding practitioner, an unbridled enthusiast and optimist, and an utterly delightful person in whom one can have absolute confidence; he is well deserving of the many awards and accolades he has received, both at Scottish and national levels.

“Despite setbacks, none of which occasioned by him, during my complicated, implant treatment, he continued to treat me with infinite patience, perseverance and genuine kindness.  His approach has always been unhurried, calm and precise.

“Before the treatment commenced, I received a detailed treatment plan with a precise costing, rather than the more commonly given estimate. It was particularly reassuring to be given Dr Friel’s mobile phone number with instructions to contact him, should I experience any post-treatment problems; following each surgical procedure, I had a phone call from the practice checking on how I was feeling. Such attention to detail, does make a real difference to the overall, patient experience.

“Dr Friel’s dental implant nurse, Kasia, has been a constant support; her friendliness and empathy have been a real ‘comfort blanket,’ as I am definitely not the bravest or calmest of patients, following a lifetime of dental complications, too numerous to mention.

“The finished result is aesthetically very pleasing and an awe inspiring piece of precision ‘engineering’. It has certainly taken time and there have been difficulties along the way, however, thanks to the sheer professionalism and perseverance of Phil, I am delighted to say, mission duly accomplished.    Philip Friel Advanced Dentistry is a dynamic practice, using state of the art technology and the very latest techniques and materials, but for me, it is the genuinely warm and friendly atmosphere and the emphasis on treating people as individuals, in addition to the high quality dental care, that sets it apart from others.

“I cannot recommend Philip Friel highly enough, and sincerely thank everyone involved in my treatment.”

From time to time we welcome represenatives from our suppliers to share knowledge with our clinical team. These sessions are always hugely beneficial and informative.

Recently the full team at our Glasgow dentistry clinic had a ‘lunch and learn’ meeting with the decontamination experts from Schulke who provide us with much of the chemicals/products for our sterilising/decontamination suite and for use in the clinical areas.

We’re at the top of our game in this sphere of cross infection control and it’s a key priority for the entire team. We’re working on a new and innovative programme for the clinic which will take us to another level – and this will be introduced shortly.

We’ll tell you more about it when we’ve launched the programme.