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Here at Seapoint Clinic, we pride ourselves on providing a relaxing or stress-free environment for all walks of life and any age. For starters, Seapoint Clinic doesn't look nor feel like your average dentist...because it isn't!

Instead, we provide the very best dental experience in Europe in a recently refurbished boutique hotel surrounding. Situated in a lovely area, Seapoint Clinic is easily accessed via DART from the adjacent Seapoint station or by road. We thoroughly believe in what we do, providing 5 star dental treatment without cutting corners.

Dental phobia is nothing to be embarrassed about, which is why we're more than happy to help anyone overcome this difficult situation. We understand why people are nervous of the dentist and we make every effort to ensure your days of bad dental experiences and care are over. If you have been misdiagnosed in the past and been advised to have unnecessary procedures, than it's only natural you feel unease at the prospect of a visit to the dentist. Here at Seapoint Clinic, offering you the very best treatment with minimum interference to the natural structure of your teeth. Our treatment works with what you have, ensuring your teeth are being supported and only interfered with when absolutely necessary. Our team of dentists, nurses, customer care executives and treatment coordinators work as a unit, meaning protocols and standards are firmly adhered to, with specialists setting the highest expectations for the judgments made by each practitioner.

So, what steps can we offer to make your visit to the dentist a memorable one for all the right reasons...

Premedication

Apart from offering patient a sympathetic dentist, we are able to sedate a patient depending on the clinical necessity. Often, prescription medication such as Valium can be taken beforehand to take the edge off the treatment are more often than not are more than enough for many nervous patients. However, it's also important to get a good nights rest the night before your appointment, as decent rest can dramatically reduce stress.

Oral Sedation

For those undergoing more extensive and lengthy procedures or who are very nervous, we offer oral sedation. This involves the use of oral sedation can provide a profound reduction in anxiety. It also helps eliminate most of the memory of the procedure. This is an incredibly effective way of combating nervousness in anxious patients and we are more than happy to be able to offer this procedure to those who request it.

Oral sedation is perfectly safe in healthy patients, but it does legally require than an escort accompany you until you have recovered several hours later. You do not need to fast with oral sedation and anyone in fine health is a suitable candidate. It's important to note that oral sedation is chargeable separately and must be paid in advance and is non-refundable if the procedure cannot go ahead due to lack of an escort. Patients must also sign a treatment plan in advance of treatment under oral sedation as you will not be able to legally consent for treatment once the IV drugs have been given. Oral sedation enables even the most nervous of patients to undergo dental treatments with little to no fuss. For a patient who is not able to undergo dental treatment at all even under oral sedation a referral to the dental hospital for treatment under general anaesthetic is necessary. We recommend that this be avoided if possible as typically no conservative treatments such as fillings or implants are carried out under general anaesthetic, meaning teeth may be removed
unnecessarily.

But sometimes it's the sheer price that can put people off, having been caught out by hidden costs in the past. You can put your mind at ease knowing that here at Seapoint Clinic we make sure that the figure we quote includes the aftercare and support of a treatment coordinator that you'll need to get help with all of those niggling concerns. We offer a clear and concise breakdown of costs, ensuring each procedure involved is clear from the beginning. 

If you want to make the first small steps in overcoming your fear of the dentist, why not contact our team who are more than happy to help you through the process.