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Advice for Patients attending Museum Dental Suites

Our team will ensure that your visit will be a pleasant, effective, and most importantly a safe experience. Many of the procedures and protocols that were routinely part of safe delivery of dental care are already well developed and practiced. With the COVID19 pandemic we have upgraded many of these routines to ensure that we are offering you the latest in safe dental environments. The risk of virus particle contamination is managed carefully in all areas of the building and clinic room.

We are keen to limit the time you spend in the practice and to manage your dental needs. We will endeavour to manage as much pre-visit admin and consultation with you over the phone and by email to streamline your actual onsite visit.

Please look at the following guidance that will help us look after you during your visit:

The day before your appointment:

We will call you before your appointment to advise you of various differences to your appointment and establish what dental needs you have. You will be asked about if you or anyone in your household has Covid 19 symptoms, and about your medical history. We may need to email your medical history form to you so you can fill it out and sign it and return it.

On the day of your appointment:

• If you are unwell or you suspect you may have Covid 19 it is better not come to the Dental Practice and stay at home and follow NHS guidance.
• If you will attend, brush your teeth using your usual oral hygiene measures, use any mouthwash you have at home as well.
• if you have been asked to completely paperwork please bring with you.
• we will only be taking card payments and we will ask you to pay a deposit before attending.
• Our waiting room is closed to patients. Please be ready to wait in your car or outside the door until you are called in, please keep your phone free while you are waiting.
• do not bring anyone with you into the building if this can be avoided. Of course we are ready to receive parents of small children and carers but please plan to keep siblings and other family and friends out of the building.
• Your dentist will use a non-contact thermometer to measure your body temperature on arrival. If you are feverish we will ask you to rebook your appointment.
• We will give you a face mask, foot covers and hand gel rub at the door. Please keep to the 2 m distance rule as much as possible
  We will then ask you to put on gloves and sign or fill in in any further paperwork.
• Please use your own toilet facilities prior to your visit to the surgery, as our toilet facilities are closed to patients unless it is an emergency.
• We will invite you into the dental surgery that will have been prepared for you to be a safe environment. Your dentist and dental nurse will be wearing PPE.
• After our initial discussion with masks on we will ask to take your mask off. We will give you a tissue to hold along with your facemask throughout the appointment in case you sneeze or cough.
• Your dental appointment will commence some treatments may not be possible due to guidelines at this time.
• You will be asked to use a mouth rinse before your treatment. We would prefer to keep the use of the mouth rinse to a minimum.
• You will remain in the surgery to make another appointment if required and to pay the bill.

Please be assured we are a well trained and an experienced team. All your treatments will be planned carefully and will be managed in a COVID19 safe environment.

Thank you for your time and understanding during this process

Kind regards

Dr Wahab Shakir
(BDS PGCert PGDip MclinDent FBARD)