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FULL CIRCLE H E A LT H Burning mouth syndrome Burning mouth syndrome causes chronic burning pain in your mouth. The pain from burning mouth syndrome may affect your tongue, gums, lips, inside of your cheeks, roof of your mouth, or widespread areas of your whole mouth. The pain can be severe, as if you scalded your mouth. Unfortunately, the cause of burning mouth syndrome often can’t be determined. Although that makes treatment more difficult, by working closely with your healthcare team, you can usually get burning mouth syndrome under control. Causes can be anything from a variety of oral conditions, psychological conditions, nutrient deficiencies, allergies, tongue thrusting, teeth grinding, to hormonal imbalances and medications. Dentist, Dr George Botha, has recently started at the beautiful De Waterkant Health in Green Point and is offering all new patients a free consultation (excluding x-rays). Janet Winterbourne SACAP Dip.Counselling & Communication Member BACP (British Assoc. Counselling and Psychotherapy) COUNSELLOR: WESTLAKE / TOKAI AREA SPECIALIST COUNSELLING FOR MARITAL/RELATIONSHIP ISSUES PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELLING for INDIVIDUALS, COUPLES COUNSELLING and FAMILIES • Relationships • Depression / Anxiety • Divorce • Trauma Related Issues • Sexual Issues • Stress Management Tel: [phone] www.janetwinterbourne.com [email protected] WE HAVE MOVED To book, call Gillian on 021 418 2048 Physio & Hydrotherapy • Clinical Psychology Psychotherapy 9 CARLTON CLOSE - LONGBEACH BUSINESS VILLAGE 021 785 7200 • www.wellspringcentre.co.za Where there’s smoke, there’s fire! Here are some tips that will hopefully help you quit: • Set a date to quit and write down the reasons why •  Identify your smoking triggers and avoid those areas • Drinks lots of water •  out a healthy eating and exercise plan and give yourself something Set new to do in place of smoking • Plan rewards with the money you save •  everyone you are quitting to get as much Tell support as possible • Look for a good support group. Kicking the habit In a country with just under 50 million people, over a third of our population smoke, and 50% of those smoke between 10 - 30 cigarettes per day! The health risks are severe, and in the Western Cape 33% of adolescent males and 19% of adolescent females smoke! Whilst the Government has tried to do its bit to cut down on smoking, such as not sell to under 18’s, not allow smoking in private cars if there is a child under 12 yrs of age present, only allow smoking in designated public areas, and seriously clamp down on tobacco advertising, over 44 000 people still die from tobacco related illnesses annually. TRY: againstsmoking.org smokeenders.co.za nicorette.co.za FULL CIRCLE DIGITAL MAGAZINE AUGUST 2013