Three chairs · ground floor · step-free
Look round before you come
Walking into an unfamiliar building is a real part of the problem, and it is the part a website can genuinely fix. This is the room you will be sitting in.
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Where you wait
Seven chairs, a window onto Bengal Street, and no television. Reception is a desk in the same room rather than a hatch, so nobody has to announce why they are here across a counter.
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The quiet corner
Two chairs away from the door for anyone who would rather not sit in the middle of a room. If you want to wait outside and be texted when we are ready, that is normal here and nobody will think anything of it.
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North light
All three surgeries face north. It is the reason the practice is called what it is: north light is even and shadowless and does not move across the afternoon, which matters when someone is matching the colour of a front tooth.
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The building
A converted mill on the corner, ground floor, step-free from the pavement. Ancoats has been making things since 1798 and the floors still sound like it.
Two dentists and a hygienist
That is genuinely everybody
A three-chair practice means you see the same person every time and they remember you without reading the notes first. It also means we cannot be good at everything, which is why the treatment list is twelve items long and not forty.
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Dr Callum Rees
Principal dentist · GDC 118342
Callum works slowly and narrates as he goes. If you want a running commentary on what is happening, ask him for it — silence makes some people worse.
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Dr Amelia Chen
Dentist · GDC 264910
Amelia is the person to book if you want the appointment broken into short pieces with breaks built in rather than one long push.
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Nisha Patel
Dental hygienist · GDC 209117
Nisha works with a hand signal by default rather than as a special arrangement, and will use numbing gel for a routine clean if cold sets your teeth off.
Kit, plainly
What is in the room
Every practice in the country says “state-of-the-art”. Here is the actual list, so you can see there is nothing in it worth being frightened of.
- Digital X-ray
- The picture appears on a screen immediately. Roughly a tenth of the dose of the film sets you may remember, and we take the fewest we can get away with.
- Intraoral camera
- A pen-sized camera so you can see what we are describing rather than take our word for it. Nothing is done with it except look.
- Ultrasonic scaler
- The whistle during a clean. Vibration and water, no cutting edge.
- Rubber dam
- A sheet that isolates one tooth during a root canal. It feels like a peg on the gum for a minute and then stops registering.
- Three chairs, all reclining
- They can also stay nearly upright. If lying flat is a problem — reflux, back, panic — say so and we work sitting up.
- A hand signal
- Not equipment, but the most used thing in the building.
Come and look at it in person
Fifteen minutes, free, nothing done to you. Ask at the desk or book it like any other appointment.