CAMBRIDGE DENTAL PRACTICE. CAMBRIDGE DENTAL PRACTICE SUMMER is HERE!!! Dr Rosalind Peart wavelength and that is what causes the burn on the surface of our skin. UVA has a longer wavelength and penetrates deep into our skin causing damage in those lower layers. It is very harmful and exists on a cloudy day and will go through glass. So you'll often see people who drive a lot for a living will have worse sun damage on the right side of their face than the left because they don't wear sunblock and don't realise that the UVB is affecting them through their car window. Every season we hear the warnings and advice around how to protect I offen hear my farmer's and equine folk say they don't like wearing sunscreen because it makes them hot and sweaty. That's because the sunscreen has a chemical protection mechanism. It absorbs the energy of the sun and then reflects it back off the surface in a chemical reaction which creates heat. An alternative to those types of sunscreen is one that uses a blocking agent such as zinc, they simply block the radiation and there is no heat producing reaction. Sunblock deal of misunderstanding around how sunblocks or sunscreen actually works. formula's are so well designed now that it doesn't mean you're going to have a white face, there are many that can be applied and are not visible as sunblock. Wasn't Labour Weekend awesome! I was lucky enough to spend it bobbing about on the ocean with some friends lazing about and warming my bones. I did however come home with a red face. Not so smart. So even I, who verges on fanatical with sunblock was caught out. And that is the topic of today's article- SUNSCREEN, ourselves and our children from the harmful effects of UV radiation but still Australasia has a ridiculously high incidence of cancer related to sun exposure. Obviously in my job I look closely at people's faces every day and this preventable damage has become something of a passion for me. Of the many conversations I have with my patients it seems there is a great So here's a few basic facts. First of all you don't have to be in the sun, or even outside for that matter. There are two types of UV radiation that cause skin damage. UVB has a short Apply a good level of coverage and reapply every couple of hours through the day. HAPPY DAYS! 9A Anzac Street I (Opposite New World) I Tel: 07 8275079 I www.cambridgedental.co.nz CAMBRIDGE DENTAL PRACTICE. CAMBRIDGE DENTAL PRACTICE SUMMER is HERE!!! Dr Rosalind Peart wavelength and that is what causes the burn on the surface of our skin. UVA has a longer wavelength and penetrates deep into our skin causing damage in those lower layers. It is very harmful and exists on a cloudy day and will go through glass. So you'll often see people who drive a lot for a living will have worse sun damage on the right side of their face than the left because they don't wear sunblock and don't realise that the UVB is affecting them through their car window. Every season we hear the warnings and advice around how to protect I offen hear my farmer's and equine folk say they don't like wearing sunscreen because it makes them hot and sweaty. That's because the sunscreen has a chemical protection mechanism. It absorbs the energy of the sun and then reflects it back off the surface in a chemical reaction which creates heat. An alternative to those types of sunscreen is one that uses a blocking agent such as zinc, they simply block the radiation and there is no heat producing reaction. Sunblock deal of misunderstanding around how sunblocks or sunscreen actually works. formula's are so well designed now that it doesn't mean you're going to have a white face, there are many that can be applied and are not visible as sunblock. Wasn't Labour Weekend awesome! I was lucky enough to spend it bobbing about on the ocean with some friends lazing about and warming my bones. I did however come home with a red face. Not so smart. So even I, who verges on fanatical with sunblock was caught out. And that is the topic of today's article- SUNSCREEN, ourselves and our children from the harmful effects of UV radiation but still Australasia has a ridiculously high incidence of cancer related to sun exposure. Obviously in my job I look closely at people's faces every day and this preventable damage has become something of a passion for me. Of the many conversations I have with my patients it seems there is a great So here's a few basic facts. First of all you don't have to be in the sun, or even outside for that matter. There are two types of UV radiation that cause skin damage. UVB has a short Apply a good level of coverage and reapply every couple of hours through the day. HAPPY DAYS! 9A Anzac Street I (Opposite New World) I Tel: 07 8275079 I www.cambridgedental.co.nz