Custom dental work has a lot of moving parts, and St. Andrews is outside the City of Winnipeg, so it helps to keep your own notes. Here’s what’s worth writing down between visits to our McPhillips Street clinic.
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A crown, denture or appliance rarely comes together in one sitting. Details get collected, the piece gets made, and then it’s tried and perhaps refined, sometimes over several appointments. By the third conversation, it’s easy to forget what was said at the first.
If you’re heading into Winnipeg from St. Andrews for this care, a small record of your own makes each trip easier to plan. It needn’t be elaborate: a date, what happened, what comes next, and whatever you’d like to ask when you’re back at the clinic on McPhillips Street.
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A line per appointment shows you where things stand at a glance.
Write them as they come up, since they’re easily lost by the time you’re in the chair.
Noting when something rubs or catches gives your dentist more than a vague memory.
Your clinical chart stays with the clinic, and this doesn’t replace it. These notes are simply for you, so you can follow along and arrive prepared.
It’s useful to know exactly what’s being made for you, and why it was prescribed for your situation.
Treatment sequences vary, and writing yours down keeps the remaining stages from becoming a surprise.
Your notes can’t settle a clinical question. If they raise one, bring them along, and let your dentist look at the tooth or tissues before drawing any conclusion.
Laid out in your file, a typical sequence looks something like this. More involved work can add extra planning or fitting appointments, so leave yourself room.
Request your visitJot down the options that were explained and the one you chose. Include any question you thought of on the way home.
Note that scans or impressions, bite details and shade information were taken, and ask what happens with them next.
This is a good time to log how any temporary is behaving. A temporary is there to protect a prepared tooth and keep things working in the meantime.
Write down how contact, bite, comfort and appearance felt, then add what you notice in the days that follow at home.
A short list before your first appointment gives the rest of your notes somewhere to begin. Don’t worry if some of it is patchy, as that’s common with older work.
It’s worth asking the clinic how records from elsewhere are requested, so you know whether that’s something to sort out before your first trip.
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Treatment words can fly past quickly when you’re lying back in a chair. Having it on paper means you can ask for something to be repeated, rather than guessing later on.
No one will mind if you take out your notes partway through a conversation.
Terms like retention or contact are fair game whenever they aren’t clear to you.
A quiet moment after your visit is often when the useful details come back.
Keeping the file going
The fitting isn’t always the final entry. Adjustments are normal for many custom pieces, and dentures rest on tissues whose shape changes as time goes by.
Speaking and chewing may reveal them after a fitting. Note where you feel them and let the clinic know, so they’re evaluated instead of tolerated.
Log the date, gather every fragment, and leave the household glue in the drawer. Then phone to arrange an assessment.
A dated note about a denture gradually loosening gives your dentist a useful timeline to work with at your next visit.
Something in your notes starting to concern you? Pick up the phone rather than waiting until your next appointment.
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Unit-5 2358 Mcphillips Street, Winnipeg, MB R2V 4J6Get directions (opens in a new tab)If you’re writing this down in St. Andrews, your care takes place at Winnipeg North Dental, Unit 5, 2358 McPhillips Street, in Winnipeg. Use the directions link when you’re working out your next trip.
Sending the form doesn’t hold an appointment. It starts a request, and the clinic gets back to you about timing. For anything urgent, call instead.
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Ask our teamCall (204) 338-3003 or send a request through the form. Appointments are at Unit 5, 2358 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg, MB R2V 4J6, and it’s the clinic that confirms a time with you.
Anything that rubs, catches, feels high or changes how you speak, along with when it happens. Those specifics help your dentist evaluate the piece, and adjustments are a normal part of many custom treatments.
Yes, that’s a reasonable thing to ask by phone. Timing depends on the type of work, its complexity, the materials and laboratory steps, and whether more records or a trial turn out to be needed.
A note about what you discussed is handy for your own memory. Shade is still judged with the restoration in your mouth under suitable lighting, so your dentist’s assessment at the fitting is what counts.
Simply ask. Bring the note to your next appointment, or phone if it affects something you need to do before then, and have the point explained again until it makes sense.
Each of these explains a different kind of custom work in more detail. Your own treatment plan still depends on what your dentist finds during an assessment.
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