Welcome to orthodontic department
The orthodontic department is a very professional specialty in our clinic. Dr Petros Kokkinos qualified in United States and has wealth of knowledge and experience. We have two nurses and clinic manager who qualified in England and has 40 years experience. Our department is highly disciplined and works to an organized protocol to ensure a complete quality of service to our patients.
The first time you visit our department is your first step to a wonderful smile, and to ensure we give you the best service we can, we follow the following procedures.
1. At the first appointment you may be given a prescription for some x-rays to help us with our diagnosis, you will then be asked to make an appointment to see one of our nurses for the records and oral hygiene lessons.
2. Records and Oral Hygiene Appointment. The second appointment we have with our new patients is an informal lesson on basic tooth brushing and oral health care, this is combined with disclosing of the teeth in order for the patient to see any areas they have difficulty with cleaning, and we give instructions on the correct brushing technique to remove all bacteria effectively. together with follow up advice, and supplies to help them with their new routine. This is followed up by photographs taken both extra orally and intra orally to help us with the diagnosis. (pic of dental cases)
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Consultation appointment is about 1 week later, to discuss your personal treatment plan, along with the records previously taken. This involves the patient and the parents and / or guardians, and is normally conducted in the early evening, this can however be altered if required.
4. Initiation of the start of your treatment is approximately 1 week later; we will give you written details of your personal treatment plan at that appointment.
5. Following the placing of any appliances we will instruct you on the aftercare and appropriate cleaning and maintenance of them before you leave, along with equipment and information to get you started.
6. As part of our duty of care for you and your treatment and ultimate smile we will also give you in depth information on the correct nutrition and preventive care.
7. After 2 days we will call you to find out how you are coping with your new appliances and if you have any concerns.
8. Two weeks after the appliances are fitted you will have an appointment to check on your ability to keep the appliances clean, we ask you to bring your toothbrush to the clinic and we will test your teeth for bacteria with disclosing tablets, this enables us to discover if you have any problems, and to discuss your dietary habits.
9. The routine maintenance of your therapy will be every 6 weeks approximately, according to your specific treatment plan.
10. Treatment can be last between 18 – 24 moths depending on your specific needs, or less if achievable.
11. When your therapy is completed, we will arrange for you to have the appliance removed. You will receive written information regarding this appointment and aftercare of the retention wire.
12. Your next appointment will be to check your retainers and to retake your photographs, you will receive the beginning and the end of treatment photographs 1 month later.
13. We will continue to monitor your retention for 1 year after the appliances are removed.
14. You can come and see us when ever you like if you have problems regarding your treatment.
Clinic opening hours
The clinic is open from 9 am till 7pm Monday – Friday. We are closed Saturday and Sunday. We do leave an emergency number on the answer phone so we are still able to attend to you if a need arise when we are closed. We like our patients to inform us if they are unable to attend an appointment as we have to see many patients for emergency treatment from time to time, and appreciate the space in our schedule to do this. If you cannot attend an appointment please inform us as soon as possible.
