More about what Dental Therapists may offer.

In the UK a dental therapist working from a prescribed treatment plan, can treat children and adults, with fillings, gum treatment and oral hygiene treatment and extraction of baby teeth. In our practice this will almost always be done with the help of "happy air" sedation to make things as easy as possible for the child.

They can, where essential, also place pre-formed stainless steel crowns on deciduous teeth. They can apply medicaments, listed by the General Dental Council and administer local anaesthetic (numbing a tooth) by the same techniques as a dentist. Dental therapists can even work independently and outwith the supervision of a dentist, although the treatment must be prescribed by a dentist Training is usually by dual diploma in dental hygiene and dental therapy but a few dental schools offer full degree training in combined hygiene/therapy. Therapists trained in the UK are now able to can work in private practice as well as their more traditional role in the hospital and community service.