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Mrs Jocelyn (Joss) Harding

CEB DipDH, MSc, GDC: 4276

Joss is a registered Dental Hygienist and has been working at Confident Dental and Implant Clinic – Stroud, Gloucestershire since 2007.

She qualified as a dental hygienist whilst serving 9 years with the Royal Navy and has been in the dental profession for over 35 years and still gets a buzz from it!

Like our other Dental Hygienists and Therapists, Joss offers Airflow Guided Biofilm Therapy treatments for maximising comfort while improving your periodontal (gum) health.

Jocelyn enjoys educating and motivating adults and children to achieve the healthiest mouths possible and is very popular with our patients due to her attention to detail combined with her wonderful bubbly personality and an extremely positive attitude. Joss is a member & treasurer of the Gloucestershire Independent Hygienists Association and regularly attends training days.

2018 was a big year for Joss as she won the national award, Dental Hygienist of the Year 2018 and Phillips #shineon competition to attend San Francisco Dental Conference.

Joss’s passion for helping the mouths of cancer patients started in 2016 whilst trying to find information to help her patients. She noticed an increase in her patients being diagnosed with cancer and when returning to general practice recalling how sore their mouths were. So, Joss set about making the information of suggestions to help mouth care more easily accessible.

Joss is President Elect of the Mouth Cancer Foundation and a Team Member of UKOMIC. Joss has represented the BSDHT to work with Public Health England working party helping update national guidelines for Oral Cancer. Further details of Joss’s work on Mouth Care for Cancer Patients can be found at her website.

Joss organises charity fundraising conference -“Talking Mouths-Talking Cancer Care” and has raised £7000.

Joss has recently authored a book “Care of Head and Neck Cancer Patients for Dental Hygienists and Dental Therapists”. A book of 49 chapters kindly supported with chapters from colleagues all over the UK and the USA.

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