Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Get updates of patients looking for a dentist...
Friday, 5 March 2010
We have patients looking for a dentist, would you like them to contact you?
We promote this device as one solution to snoring directly to patients and in 2 weeks have had 55 people join our Facebook group and 16 people contact us directly with specific requests for a dentist that is able to see them to help with their snoring - now of course we place these patients with our existing clients, but we are now also looking for more dentists around the UK to see these patients and help with their snoring.
So, do you have a practice in one of these areas?
If you do, would you like your details passed on to these patients?
We desperately need dentists in:
Beverley, East Yorkshire
Lowestoft
Harrogate
Lancing
Littlehampton
Croyden
Edgware
Nottingham
Birmingham
Norwich
Chester
Falmouth
Please call me at the laboratory 01707 663293 to discuss how we can get these patients in to your practice to solve their snoring problems.
Speak soon,
Mark
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Anti Snoring Appliance Patient Referral Scheme
The chances are that 60% of the men in your practice suffer from snoring… or should that be their partners suffer with their snoring!
Curing snoring with an Anti-Snoring Appliance is a simple piece of dentistry; most of the noises produced by snoring are generated by bottlenecks or even complete obstruction of the airways, especially when the patient lies on their back.
The SILENSOR Anti-Snoring Appliance makes use of the fact that the pharyngeal space is enlarged when the lower jaw is displaced in an anterior direction.

All it involves on your part is upper and lower impressions, a centric bite and a note as to whether the patient requires hard or soft splints. The device can be returned within 10 working days with no interim appointments needed. The lab fee for this is £167.
Now here's the good bit...
Patient referral scheme
As part of our value added service to dentists in the UK we offer a referral service for patients looking for a snoring appliance. We run a Google Adwords & Facebook campaign encouraging patients to visit our patient anti snoring page, from here they give us their details and we provide them with the details of a dentist local to them, would you like to be on this list?
We launched this scheme on Friday 12th Feb, over the weekend we have had 3 patients contact us already looking for a dentist to provide an anti snoring appliance.
The only way to be part of this scheme and receive these referrals is to be a client of SBO, so please call Mark on 01707 663293 to find out how we can make this happen today, or email mark@sbodentallaboratory.co.uk
Monday, 14 September 2009
Save your patient's marriage as well as fixing their teeth
We've made a few of these great little appliances in the lab recently with some brilliant results... and no doubt some relationships saved too. So how do they work?
How does the appliance work?
(Edited extract from Silensor website)
Studies have shown that approximately 40% of the population of the industrialised countries snore and that this increases to 60% in men above the age of 60.
Most of the noises produced by snoring are generated by vibration of areas of the soft tissues. During sleep, there is a natural relaxation of the muscle tone in the neck and pharynx and the normal firmness of the tissues decreases, resulting in the formation of bottlenecks or even complete obstruction of the airways, especially when the patient lies on their back.
Due to this narrowing of the pharyngeal space, the required volume of air must be respired at a higher velocity to deliver the same quantity of air. This results in stimulation and vibration of soft tissues, such as the velum palatinum (soft palate) and the uvulum.
The SILENSOR makes use of the fact that the pharyngeal space is enlarged when the lower jaw is displaced in an anterior direction.
The SILENSOR consists of two separate clear splints made in either hard or soft materials which fit over the upper and lower arches. The splints are connected by two lateral rotating connectors which gently pull the lower jaw forward. Any further opening of the mouth increases the anterior displacement of the lower jaw.
The connectors come in 4 lengths and we usually start with length number 2. If the patient doesn't feel the benefit we can use a shorter connector to move the lower jaw more anteriorly. Alternatively if the patient feels length 2 is too much we can use a longer connector and not move the lower jaw quiet so much.
What do we need at the lab?
All we need at the lab are upper and lower impressions, a centric bite and a note as to whether the patient requires hard or soft splints. The device can be returned within 10 workings with no interim appointments needed. The lab fee for this is £167 and the person to contact at the lab is Keith
This is one of the simplest and quickest surgery procedures with only 2 appointments and 2 impressions needed; and yet, it can provide the most life changing results for patients that suffer from this problem... although the person that often benefits the most is their partner!
An opportunity to market them to your patients
And now with my marketing head firmly screwed on... why not run a special offer to your patients for the end of next month at Halloween...
"Make sure the only thing keeping you awake at night is your Phasmophobia*... XX% off anti-snoring appliances from 31st October to Xth of November
*an abnormal and persistent fear of ghosts, spectres and phantasms to you and me"
And on that bomb shell... I'll say no more...
Mark