Children’s dentistry
Under-6s are seen free alongside a treating parent. Dr Simi Adeyemi runs the children’s list and treats a first visit as a ride in the chair and a count of the teeth — nothing more — until a child is happy to go further.
Bring them from about age two, and bring them to your own appointment before that. A child who has watched a parent lie in the chair twice already is a different proposition from one who has been brought in at six because something hurts.
The first appointment is deliberately uneventful: sit in the chair, make it go up and down, count the teeth with a mirror, and leave. No probing, no polishing, no x-rays. If that goes well the next one adds a polish, and the one after that adds fluoride varnish. We are not in a hurry.
Fluoride varnish twice a year from age three, and fissure sealants on the first permanent molars at around six or seven, do more to prevent fillings than anything else available. Both are quick, neither needs anaesthetic, and sealants are £45 a tooth.
They need to be seen alongside a parent who is a patient here. It is not charity; children who come from age two need far less treatment at twelve, and that is better for everyone including us.
Say so when you book and we will put them in a longer slot with Dr Adeyemi, first appointment of the day when the practice is quiet. See also our page on nervous patients — most of it applies to children too.
An assessment at around eight or nine, treatment usually at eleven to thirteen once enough adult teeth are through. Some bite problems are better intercepted earlier — see children’s orthodontics.
Specialist orthodontics
Assessment at eight or nine, treatment usually at eleven to thirteen once enough adult teeth are through. A few bite problems are worth intercepting earlier, and the assessment exists to find those.
ExploreGeneral dentistry
Around one new patient a week here starts with a consultation-only appointment: a conversation in a normal room, no chair, no instruments, nothing done. Say so when you book and that is what you will get.
ExploreGeneral dentistry
Grace Chen sees hygiene patients four days a week at Harrogate and Tuesdays at Wetherby. Airflow stain removal is part of the appointment rather than a £30 upsell at the end of it.
ExploreA written plan with fixed prices before anything starts, at either clinic. Ring us or book online — reception can usually find something while you are on the call.