Dentists encounter dental infections on a daily basis. These include gum infections, dental abscess and infections involving the gums around wisdom teeth. Infection is also a minor complication following the extraction of teeth. In these situations we are often asked by our patients to prescribe a course of antibiotics. It is estimated that, worldwide, dentists…

Sussex Dental Group West Hove are currently recruiting for  trainee and qualified dental nurses. This is a busy family run practice that boasts 7 fully equipped modern surgeries, one sterilisation area and two patient waiting areas. The main responsibility of a dental nurse is to to perform high quality dental nursing whilst assisting each dentist,…

Sussex Dental Group is the new name for the practices previously known as Portslade Dental Centre, Old Village Dental Centre and Broadfield Dental Centre. The practices have all been run by Dr Emmanuel Lazanakis for many years so we decided to bring everything together under the SDG name. Don’t worry, we haven’t been taken over…

Susie has been a Dental Nurse with Sussex Dental Group since September 2016 and currently works at the West Hove and Portslade Village centres. Here she tells us about her typical day…