St Faith Dental Practice

Alex Middleton, Dip Dent Hygiene and Therapy 2010

Dental Hygienist and Therapist GDC No. 194239

Alex was a General Nurse working in Maxillofacial Surgery and Accident and Emergency before re-training as a Dental Hygienist and Therapist. 

She has great empathy with nervous patients and, very unusually, she is able to provide scaling and other hygiene work under inhalational sedaton.

Why choose
St Faith Dental Clinic

One of the leading dental practices in East Grinstead and West Sussex.

Unfortunately NHS Commissioning standards have changed

We are now obliged to carry out all NHS treatment on under 12’s using inhalation sedation only.

This limits the types of treatment that we may be able to carry out on NHS contract, and regrettably we cannot guarantee that we will be able to complete all of the treatment you have been referred for.

We remain compliant with National ‘IACSD’ sedation guidelines which allow us the clinical freedom to use -where necessary -alternative ‘advanced’ sedation techniques on a non- NHS (private) basis.

If it looks like treatment will not be successful under ‘basic’ sedation, the options will be to refer you onward to Community Dental Service or Hospital (where facilities allow) or back to your own dentist for the treatment to be attempted under local anasethetic, or to discuss re-referral on a private basis.

We wish to make clear that this situation is purely as a result of NHS commissioning and completely beyond our control, but assure you of our best efforts in continuing to provide high standards in NHS treatment where possible.