One of our longest serving members of staff, Janice, has retired after over 35 years at Stricklandgate Dental Practice.

Janice began working in the practice during the 1980’s and has since seen hundreds of patients and worked with multiple dentists. Despite the change in dentistry, Janice’s upbeat, kind and sympathetic nature remained the same throughout the years and both patients and staff will miss her dearly.

Thank you for all of your hard work over the years Janice, we cannot wait to catch up and hear how retirement is treating you!

Team Strictly Dental

We have been open for three weeks now and have thoroughly enjoyed being back! We are glad to be able to look after all our patients at the practice again.

The new protocols are designed to keep everyone as safe as possible. We initially began by prioritising those needing urgent and emergency care. If you have had any dental issues or concerns during lockdown, please get in touch and we will get you booked in immediately.

We are now ready to move onto the next phase.

We are pleased to be able to offer general dental treatments including examinations and hygienist appointments.

If you have received a recall during lockdown or are now due, please get in touch and reception will be happy to book you in.

Current guidelines limit the use of the ultrasonic scaler so hygienist appointments will be mainly hand scale. Filling appointments take much longer due to the additional PPE and decontamination of the surgery after each treatment. This means the number of patients we are able to see per day is much less than before the Covid19 pandemic. 

The new appointment booking system will allow you to complete some forms at home which we can send via email or text message. We also require you to fill in a ‘Consent to treatment form’. Our Reception team will call you on the day of your appointment to ask you some screening questions to ensure you are well enough to attend. This will all be explained to you by our friendly team when booking your appointment, who can also answer any other questions you may have.

From this week all of our dentists will be available including those with special interests:

Dr Satya Patel (Cosmetic dentistry and dental implants)

Dr Chrissie Howell (Restorative dentistry)

Dr John Harkes (General dentistry)

Dr Ben Harrison (Root canal treatment)

We expect our diaries will get increasingly busy, so please do not delay booking an appointment. We are happy to book appointments in advance so please get in touch.

We look forward to seeing you at the practice soon.

Best wishes

Satya Patel

Principal Dentist

As you may have heard on the news, back at the very end of May, dental practices in England were given the go-ahead to reopen on Monday 8th June as long as strict health and safety guidelines were adhered to.

We reopened the practice on Monday 8th June as planned and began to see patients with emergency and urgent care needs only. As the last couple of weeks have progressed we have slowly been able to extend the number of treatments able to be offered and have now began to take bookings for routine examinations and hygiene appointments.

If you are looking to book a routine appointment, give our reception team a call on 01768 865744 and they will assist you.

We look forward to seeing you all soon!

Strictly Dental

We are ready to safely see you again from Monday 8th June! Some things may have changed but remember, we are still the same friendly faces under our new PPE!

Infection control and patient care has always been our priority. We will be using all the necessary PPE and updated protocols in order to keep all our patients and staff safe.

Summary of our new patient journey:

1) If you are displaying COVID-19 symptoms we will not be able to provide treatment.

2) Please complete forms at home where possible – medical history/COVID-19 consent form.

3) Wait in your car if you arrive early & try to arrive as close to your appointment time as possible.

4) Attend the practice by yourself and with as few personal items as possible.

5) You will be called to enter the practice and asked observe social distancing when others are present.

6) The practice front door will be open, please use the hand sanitising station available before entering practice.

7) We will carry out a temperature check after you have sanitised your hands.

8)You will be chaperoned to the surgery.

9) Expect to see your dentist and nurse in extra PPE – however, we are still the same friendly people underneath!

10) Before your treatment you will be given a specific mouthwash to decontaminate the oral cavity.

11) Your treatment may take longer than before due to the extra precautions and procedures in place to keep everyone safe.

12) On leaving the surgery, a buddy nurse will chaperone you to reception.

13) Please sanitise your hands before you exit.

14) The preferred method of payment will be card or online bank transfer. Details will be provided by reception.

We look forward to seeing you all soon!

Strictly Dental Team