EndoCare brings together a leading group of advanced endodontic specialists, ready and available to assist you and your patients with all aspects of this challenging procedure. We welcome all contact from our referrers and are happy to discuss cases, offer help and give advice on all aspects of endodontics and patient care. We want you to regard EndoCare as part of your team. We aim to look after your patients in the same efficient and caring manner that you would, returning them to you pain-free, confident and happy with the quality of treatment they have received. Our experience in tackling this tricky procedure, combined with our expertise in anesthesia and aptitude with advanced technologies such as digital imaging and operating microscopes, makes us capable of handling the most difficult endodontic cases for you. We are able to react quickly and we willingly accept emergency cases and referrals. In this way, we are able to remove much of the stress for you as the referrer and the patient, allowing you to focus on your core strengths of restorative and cosmetic treatments.

Many of our referring dentists are delighted to have a resource that specialises in root canal treatments, as it can be a stressful, yet slow and laborious procedure, which can hugely disrupt their daily schedule due to the often-urgent nature of the work. Referral ensures that your management of time is optimised, while the patient receives immediate care and can expect the best results. Referral to an endodontic specialist also helps prevent those treatment errors that can cause unnecessary complications. We employ the most up-to-date equipment, allowing us to ensure a great technical and biological result delivered in a calm, reassuring manner.

The best way to obtain quality patient care is by building close relationships and maintaining good communications between general practitioners and ourselves at EndoCare. Our willingness to discuss patients and give endodontic advice to our colleagues has enabled us to build up great and positive relationships with our referrers. Receiving all the relevant information about a patient’s medical history, social history and restorative treatment ensures that we can make the correct treatment decisions, such as the need for sedation, the timing of treatment and the referring dentist’s actual preferences for restoration. Following treatment, we send our referrer a follow-up report, including pre-and-post-treatment information. Prognosis of treatment and additional treatment recommendations are normally given; for example, if immediate restoration is recommended to lower the risk of fracture, it will be clearly stated.

The decision that has the greatest impact on the quality of patient care during endodontic treatment is choosing whether or not to refer. We welcome all referrals from diagnosis to checking the endodontic status of teeth prior to crown and bridgework. We excel in treating anxious patients, dealing with anaesthetic problems and other challenging issues such as hot pulp cases and re-treatments.

We are happy removing posts and taking on elective treatments in cosmetic cases. We will do surgery if indicated, but whatever decision we make, it will always be in the best interests of the patient.

We endeavour to do most treatments in a single visit of between one and two hours, depending on how complex the treatment is. If the tooth is very infected or it is an emergency visit we will ensure immediate or urgent pain and infection control is taken care of, then everything is normally completed at the next visit.

The patients are seen in a gentle, caring environment. Our endodontists’ use of state-of-the-art equipment means that treatment is faster, more efficient and can be completed in fewer visits. We use digital radiographs, which gives off lower doses of radiation, while providing us with immediate images. Our NiTi instruments ensure fast, accurate preparations and use of the Wand offers more comfortable injections, all of which results in smoother treatment and a happier patient.

We welcome referrals from all our colleagues and can send a referral pack out on request. Please feel free to use our on-line pro-forma and please be completely confident that your patient will receive the optimal care and treatment and be referred back to you. We sincerely want to develop a real relationship with our referrers and welcome you to visit the practice to meet us and discuss any issues you might have. We issue CPD certificates for attendance.

As far as when to refer, we believe that when the practitioner determines that a referral is in the patient’s best interest, it should be made as quickly as possible to minimize the likelihood of complications such as pain or swelling.