“I’m scared of the dentist”, “I hate the dentist” and “I avoid going to the dentist” are common phrases that have been heard for the last 100 years.

A Dental Hygienist is a trained and registered health professional that primarily deals with the health of the gums. They are focused on the prevention of oral diseases and helping people to establish better oral hygiene practices.

Hi! My name is Dr. Kev Chavda and I am an NHS dentist based in Nottingham and Derbyshire, you may also know me as ‘Kev the Dentist’ on various social media platforms.

When you build a house, you need great foundations. The foundations ensure stability, strength and longevity. The gums are the foundations of the teeth.

Imagine playing a complex board game where everyone is playing by their own rules, except you don’t know what the rules are or how to invent your own. That’s what life can feel like when we haven’t learnt the skill of healthy personal boundaries.

Looking back at 2020 I don’t believe anyone could have predicted just how challenging the year would be and how it would take all of our collective resilience and flexibility to try and navigate it as best we can.

As a GP I see patients daily with sleep problems. Many people come to their doctors in desperation about their sleep. Chronic insomnia (meaning difficulty sleeping despite trying for more than 3 months) is very common and affects 1 in 10 adults.

‘Yoga does not transform the way we see things, it transforms the person who sees’ – B.K.S. Iyengar This has been a turbulent year and with so many changes and challenges it has been difficult to stay grounded and find moments of clam and focus.

What is a bunion? A bunion is a bony bump on the side of the big toe. The medical name for bunion is “hallux valgus”. Bunions develop over a long time and start to cause pressure and pain over the bump. As the big toe drifts toward the second toe

How do you explain a 2,500-year-old Chinese treatment using our 200-year-old Western Medical knowledge and how do our Western minds get around the concept of energy flow and meridians?

Knee replacement or Arthroplasty is a common procedure that many of us will have either heard of or know someone who has had this procedure.

Believe it or not, but 1 in 2 of us will be affected by a urology condition in our lifetime, this is according to figures from The Urology Foundation.  That’s approximately 3.9 billion of us.