Dentist reviews on our website

August 28, 2008

So with this (newish) website we wanted to enable people to leave their own reviews on our dental practice - both good and bad on this reviews webpage

We didn’t exactly push this facility, it felt a bit like fishing for compliments - but someone just pointed out that people might actually want to have the opportunity. So, for any of our existing patients please find the facility in the reviews section in the above drop down menu, and click the link. You can enter feedback directly into the form.

Our latest colleague at Winning Smiles, Damien Reilly, had some positive feedback recently, and because it is directly about his dental sedation - which addresses a lot of people’s desire for ‘painless dentistry’ - we thought we’d produce an excerpt here.

I came in for 4 hours sedation with your FANTASTIC sedationist Doctor Damian. It was recommended as I needed 10 upper crowns and surgery to even up my gum lines. This involved a very lengthy treatment, which thankfully I was not aware of. Amazingly I was told to eat and drink before treatment. The drug process to put me to sleep was not in the least bit traumatic. It only involved a tiny needle, with just one drop at a time of the drug. When I came round, I did not feel unwell in the least (just not quite with it). It was a totally stress free experience, and I recommend it to anyone undergoing lengthy/complex work.

Ruth is extremely generous in terms of her comments, but also the time taken to feed back on this site.

We’re just a bit worried now that it looks like we’re paying her instead of the other way round!

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Dental Myth Buster 3: Painless dental injections are here

March 8, 2008

Local Anaesthetic doesn’t have to hurt (time to read: 2 mins)

With the right skill, care , topical anaesthetic gel and a little known piece of dental wizardry called ‘The Dental Wand’ we can make teeth, gums and even the whole jaw (for implant surgery) numb without the patient feeling a thing.

At my practice in Essex, this is so routine I don’t even think about it anymore. Just as in many dental surgeries the world over, dentists have come to take a little toe-curling and a wince from the patient as they administer their injections of local anaesthetic for granted, the opposite is true at Winning Smiles.

This was borne out for me the other night when my last patient came in for a clinical examination. Being my younger brother he hasn’t been in for years so obviously there was work to do…..and being my younger brother I thought I’d better do it straight away otherwise he’d just go away and wait for the abscess to develop! Giving him a lift to the station he said ‘Wow, you don’t use injections anymore, that gel stuff works really well!’…and I realised that after I had painted topical gel on the gum, he didn’t feel a thing until we were all done!

The Dental Wand is a computer controlled anaesthetic delivery system which -with a little training and a gentle approach- allows ‘numbing up’ to be accomplished without the patient feeling a thing. No sharp stab. No sharp pain as the needle continues its journey into the gum… that’s it: and all you need is

A tube of numbing gel
Anaesthetic at body temperature (pre-warmed)
The Dental Wand

The Wand

and a gentle approach….

Now that’s not difficult, is it? So why are so few dentists using it, oh I forgot, making your patients wince is ok…..

A patient of mine came back from the States recently. A friend of hers had just come back from the dentist over there….and Teresa was surprised to find out that her friend had been subjected to the old fashioned injection - in the land of advanced dentistry!

Posted by Andrew | Filed Under Painless Dentistry | 1 Comment