Louise Clark, a student dental hygienist at the Eastman, has become the 1,000th member of the online forum hygienist.co.uk.

Hygienist.co.uk in its present format is now ten years old and is hosted and run by its founder John Stanfield MSc RDH, a dental hygienist with over 30 years' experience and several awards under his belt.

Hygienist.co.uk allows members of the dental team to discuss matters affecting the profession of dental hygiene and wider issues affecting dentistry as a whole, in a secure environment. Topics range from direct access to classification of furcations to blockages of airflow tips and even sometimes just to letting off a little steam in an understanding environment. It also serves to educate and mentor those who, because of the way hygienists work (often the only hygienist in the practice), may find it a lonely existence and do not have peers to bounce ideas off.

Louise is pictured with her gifts supplied by Hygienist.co.uk and Swallow Dental of a Waterpik Nano and a Montana Jack sickle scaler (PDT).