Dental Check-Up by 1

Talbot Road Dental Practice is proud to support The British Paediatric Society Dental CheckUp by 1 campaign.

Taking your baby to the dentist when their teeth first come through or by the age of one at the latest gets them off to a healthy start and accustomed to dental practice visits from an early age.

A dental appointment by the age of one is an opportunity for parents to get valuable advice from the dental team.

Your dentist will do their best to look inside the baby’s mouth but this may not always be possible.

What’s important is you get advice on topics such as:

Brushing baby’s teeth

A healthy diet

Regular dental checks

At this age, understanding how to care for your baby’s teeth moving forwards is critical to their future dental health.

Please contact us using our website contact form for further information.

Please keep your appointment

The Covid-19 restrictions are easing in Wales, but dentistry, and healthcare, is still hugely impacted by Covid-19 Infection Prevention and Control requirements.

Routine dentistry still requires the correct social distancing measures and personal protective equipment to be in place.

Keep your appointment

Please make sure you keep your appointment if you have one; it’s going to be safe and it’s important we don’t waste limited resources. If you can’t make an appointment, let us know as soon as you can. We will be able to offer it to someone else who really needs it.

Please be assured that our dental team are working within the current guidelines issued by Welsh Government and are doing their best to help patients receive care.

Covid-19 and dentistry - an update for our patients

Advice for patients

The Covid-19 restrictions are easing in Wales, but dentistry,  and healthcare, is still hugely impacted by Covid-19 Infection Prevention and Control requirements. 

Routine dentistry still requires the correct social distancing measures and personal protective equipment to be in place.

Thank you for your patience 

Keep your appointment 

Please make sure you keep your appointment if you have one; it’s going to be safe and it’s important we don’t waste limited resources. If you can’t make an appointment, let us know as soon as you can. We will be able to offer it to someone else who really needs it.

Please be assured that our dental team are working within the current guidelines issued by Welsh Government and are doing their best to help patients receive care.

What are dental appointments like?

The Practice team are using personal protective equipment such as mask, gloves and aprons and social distancing measures to keep staff and patients safe.

  • If you call to make an appointment, you will be asked some screening questions. You’ll be asked those same questions again at your appointment to see if anything has changed since you booked

  • The front door is locked

  • You will be asked to use hand sanitiser (and again before you leave)

  • You will also notice that the dental team may be wearing different protective equipment to what you are used to seeing – this will be to increase your protection

  • Appointments will be managed to allow for social distancing between patients. That might mean that you’re offered fewer options for scheduling your appointment.

How you can help:

  • Please do not arrive without an appointment

  • With the exception of children and persons in need, patients should come alone

  • Patients should attend wearing a mask if possible or be prepared to wear one. A distance of at least two metres mush be observed if another patient is present in the dental practice

  • Please do not arrive early to the practice. If necessary, you should wait outside the practice

  • Staff will not shake your hand

It is likely to be some time before dental services can return to what you previously experienced as normal.

However, your dental teams will be doing all they can to ensure you receive the treatment you require in the safest way.

Viv celebrates 40 years qualified

Congratulations Viv!

Our brilliant hygienist Viv, is celebrating 40 years since she qualified from Cardiff Dental School in 1981!

We can't believe it either! 40 years of nagging her patients to floss!

We really appreciate her dedication to her profession, and her commitment to our Practice and her patients.

Well done Viv, here's to the next 40!!!

Covid-19 Control Measures Remain in Place in Dental Practice

Following the Welsh Government easing of restrictions at the weekend, we felt it was important to inform you that for healthcare, our regulations have not changed. We continue to follow Welsh Government guidelines to protect our patients, our team and our community.

What this means for you…

  • Wear a mask while attending the Practice, unless you are exempt

  • Social distancing will remain in place. We will continue to manage our appointment book so that the waiting rooms are not in use

  • Our closed door policy will remain, allowing only pre booked appointments for patients that have passed the Covid-19 screening questions to enter

  • Please arrive on time and alone, with the minimum of belongings

  • Please postpone your appointment if you, or anyone in your household, has Covid-19 symptoms

    Thank you for your cooperation