Research – Treeline Dental Group
Our mission across Treeline Dental Group is to deliver world-class, accessible and truly inclusive general and specialist dentistry to all of our patients.
Treeline Dental Group – Research
Patient care at Treeline means serving patients not only with the treatments they need, but also giving them the assurance that they are getting the latest proven technology. We believe this means playing a role in research.
A recent initiative has seen Treeline’s DCP teams collaborate in ground-breaking diabetes testing. The dental profession has long understood the role their teams can play beyond simply improving a patient’s oral health. With this in mind, Jimmey and his team have been exploring how the DCP teams in their dental practices can support research aimed at helping detect conditions such as diabetes.
Treeline Dental Care, has been partnering with the University of Birmingham research team in this ground-breaking national research project. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and non-diabetic hypoglycaemia (NDH) (pre-diabetes) carry a major economic and health burden to our nation – and dental teams, who see patients regularly and who are trained to advise on diet and lifestyle risk factors, can play a significant role in early detection.
Treeline manages the workflow of this initiative largely through DCP team members. Jimmey Palahey, Treeline’s co-founder has been keen to embrace alternative opportunities for his teams above their day-to-day clinical work – and this commitment to the Group’s staff has been warmly received.
“We are very grateful to our patients at Treeline for embracing the research. We have been embracing the message with patients about ‘putting the mouth back in the body’ – good oral health and good general health are closely intertwined. Enabling the research is of course hugely motivating, but also supporting patients with diabetes to establish good general and oral health practices is wonderful.”
Jo Rodd, Deputy Lead & a qualified dental nurse at Treeline Dental Care, Lincoln
“In the spirit of ‘making every contact count’, I was keen to maximise the role our dental teams could play in furthering general health research as well as exploring the intersection between certain diseases and oral health. It is hugely rewarding to be working with recognised research institutions. Moreover, taking on the opportunity to support this ground-breaking research is the right thing to do.”
Jimmey Palahey, co-founder, Treeline Dental