We take pride in the quality of the dental service we offer, and our aim is to help you and your family maintain good dental health through preventative and restorative dentistry. We provide a range of treatments as well as advice and information on maintaining good dental health. We have a local decontamination unit to ensure the highest possible standards of hygiene within the practice. We employ a dental hygienist to professionally clean and polish your teeth. She will also give advice on methods and products to maintain the longevity of your teeth and gums. This practice complies with the 1998 Data Protection Act and this policy describes our procedures for ensuring that personal information about patients is processed fairly and lawfully. We need to keep comprehensive and accurate personal data about our patients in order to provide them with safe and appropriate dental care. We also need to process personal data about you in order to provide care under NHS arrangements and to ensure the proper management and administration of the NHS. We will process personal data that we hold about you in the following way.