Welcome, Colleagues!
Written by: Dentist Rune Skou 2008-03-09
Last update: 2011-03-04
Toothportal.co.uk is a new resource designed to help patients and dentists understand one another.
You know the situation
Sometimes patients misunderstand the information you give them, or just forget it altogether.
This causes confusion, frustration and wasted time for both of you.
That’s why Toothportal.co.uk is online
Toothportal.co.uk is here to give all patients free access to information about teeth, dentists and dentistry – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
This gives patients a better insight into their own health and treatment options, and gives dentists a smooth and effective supplementary avenue of communication.
Toothportal.co.uk helps dentists communicate
To make communication easier, we also supply the following materials which can be printed and offered as reading material.
Download them for free and get them ready for your next patient now!
- Information about cavities
- Information about periodontitis
- Information about erosion
- Information about crowns
- Information about bridges
- Information about implants
- Information about what to do after a composite filling
- Information about what to do after a root-canal procedure
- Information about what to do after an extraction
- Information about post-operative treatment
Medical history
Not knowing about a patient’s full medical history can be dangerous. To solve the problem, Toothportal.co.uk supplies a free medical history questionnaire which can be used to ensure you have the complete story from everyone you work with:
Children
Children present a special challenge for communication. If there isn’t a parent or guardian with them when they’re examined, explaining a condition and its treatment can be especially problematic.
To ensure the correct message gets back to those responsible for the child, Toothportal.net offers a standard form to communicate the information: