Sandon Dental Practice

Most dentists get you to say ‘aaah’, this one made me think ‘hmmm’.
Perhaps it was the fact that I’d accidentally ended up having a load of treatment at a private dentist, but my expectations of dentistry came crashing down with a bump when I landed in the waiting room of Sandon Dental Practice. Needing an NHS dentist, this was the first place I’d seen and needing a cure for desperately painful toothache. Through a haze of paracetomol and the vile mood toothache ensures, I saw that the place was in the middle of a refurbishment, which was hopefully to smarten up the tired looking interior (a contrast to the well-​kept exterior).
But who gives a toss about a waiting room when you’re in absolute agony?! So let’s get onto the service. The dentist I saw to cure my pain was soon suggesting £500 worth of root canal surgery and a crown — money which I didn’t (and still don’t) have, so I took the antibiotics he offered in the meanwhile and that calmed the pain down for a few months. Something didn’t sit quite right about this dentist, a hunch which I feel was validated when I sought a different NHS dentist and he told me that no amount of root canal surgery would save said tooth and would be in vain. I’m not questioning the Sandon dentist’s integrity, just reporting two different opinions.