The Smile Studios : Cockfosters Skin & Dental
Heddon Court, 27 Cockfosters Rd, Barnet EN4 0DB, United Kingdom
4.8
31 reviews
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JVW3+J4 Barnet, United Kingdom
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Sunday: Close
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Sunday: Close
Would highly recommend
My usual dentist at the Smile Studios Palmers Green could not fix it, but they had a specialist who could, Dr Sanjeev Kapadia.
I can only praise the excellent work, accuracy, care, skill, expertise, resilience and patience he and his assistant provided during what was to become over a year and a half of treatments (with large gaps thanks to Covid, including me catching it).
He removed the broken tooth, which was in multiple fragments in my gum, sealing the damaged area with some amazingly tiny and skilful stitching in my gum. Then we waited for this to heal, this took over 6 months to fully recover.
He then placed the base for the crown onto my healed jaw bone, making it fit correctly and then screwed this assembly on, again stitching to assist accuracy in healing. Then we again waited a few months for this to set.
During the above procedures, I did have some local pain blocking injections in my gums, but Dr Kapadia was so careful when placing the needle I hardly felt anything. Patience seems to be the key, give things time to action, respond and heal.
In yet another visit, a model was made of my mouth to enable the replacement tooth/crown thing to be modelled and manufactured, we also picked the colour so it would fit well into my mouth without being too obvious.
On the final visit, the new tooth, made of a titanium alloy / porcelain was put into place and Dr Kapadia spent quite some time ensuring it felt a natural fit by making me bite down on something many times, and then grinding (I guess) the tooth to a suitable and final shape.
The type of replacement tooth used by Dr Kapadia also has an additional capability some others don’t in that due to some fine laser surface etching, it can bind biologically better to my gum.
If you have a need to replace a tooth I can highly recommend Dr Sanjeev Kapadia who works at The Smile Studios Cockfosters branch and also at the Muswell Hill branch (though I always went
to the Cockfosters branch).
Summary: Excellent job, manageable price given long term, zero interest payment plan provided by the surgery. Highly recommended.