About us - practice philosophy

For many years now the dental profession has known the causes of the main diseases that have damaged human teeth, namely gum disease and tooth decay and how these disease can be prevented. The practice is committed to working with patients to help them achieve good oral health for life and reduce the need for restorative treatment. Where treatment is necessary we aim to minimise this to preserve as much natural tissue as is practical for the treatment to work.

Nowadays dental treatment doesn't need to be as frightening or painful as it used to be. There are a wide range of good quality local anaesthetics that work quickly and effectively and that when used with a sympathetic and professional approach can make the treatment experience much more manageable. In addition the practice has the benefit of nitrous oxide and oxygen piped to the surgeries which can be used when patients feel the need for some additional help to make them relaxed.

Dental health care does not need to cost the earth. A preventive approach to dentistry means that less dentistry needs to be done keeping costs down. We wish to be fully transparent about charges and only undertake treatment that you have agreed to and have been advised of the cost. We will endeavour to explain to you various options as to treatments that you may require as well as their relative merits and costs to enable you to be fully informed before deciding on a course of treatment.