{"id":176,"date":"2015-07-28T10:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T09:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drbenatkins.co.uk\/?p=176"},"modified":"2015-11-10T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T10:59:23","slug":"so-why-does-the-dentist-have-fillings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbenatkins.co.uk\/so-why-does-the-dentist-have-fillings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So why does the Dentist have fillings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">I recently took part in a piece of research by Chloe Lambert for the Daily Mail (Mail Online Health) entitled \u201cDo doctors practice what they preach? From the dentist with ten fillings to the dermatologist with acne, we meet the experts who suffer from ailments they treat\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">It was fun article to be featured in with stories about dermatologists; neurologists; gastroenterologists amongst others. But it had a serious message underlining it from each of the specialist clinicians.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">Many dental patients are worried about metal fillings and it seems to put them at ease to know that I have a mouthful of metal, would you believe ten fillings in total!! And I would have no qualms about putting them in my young children\u2019s mouths either.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span class=\"s1\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">So how did it come about? Ironic really, as when I was a child, my mum used to give me a bag of toffees as a reward for being brave at the dentist. Being a goody two shoes, I&#8217;d make my toffees last all day, while my brother would scoff them all at once. The result? He has no fillings, I have many.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"line-height: 18.0pt; orphans: auto; text-align: start; widows: 1; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span class=\"s2\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">Here\u2019s the link to the article<\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailym.ai\/1hCDlr0\"><span class=\"s3\"><span style=\"color: blue;\">Do doctors practise what they preach? From the dentist with ten fillings to the dermatologist with acne, we meet the experts who suffer from ailments they treat<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">enjoy the read!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently took part in a piece of research by Chloe Lambert for the Daily Mail (Mail Online Health) entitled \u201cDo doctors practice what they preach? From the dentist with ten fillings to the dermatologist with acne, we meet the experts who suffer from ailments they treat\u201d It was fun article to be featured in with stories about dermatologists; neurologists; gastroenterologists amongst others. But it had a serious message underlining it from each of the specialist clinicians.\u00a0 Many dental patients are worried about metal fillings and it seems to put them at ease to know that I have a mouthful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>So why does the Dentist have fillings? - Dr Ben Atkins BDS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/drbenatkins.co.uk\/so-why-does-the-dentist-have-fillings-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"So why does the Dentist have fillings? - Dr Ben Atkins BDS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I recently took part in a piece of research by Chloe Lambert for the Daily Mail (Mail Online Health) entitled \u201cDo doctors practice what they preach? 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