Client Testimonials

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Monica Lambert from London describes her root canal treatment at 99 Harley street.

Thank you so much for your kind email. I am very touched by the interest and aftercare that you are giving me.

I am delighted to tell you that we ( I and my tooth) are very well indeed! After the procedure I experienced about 3 hours of some discomfort, which was more of the tightness than the pain really, and then nothing! I was absolutely amazed that the pain that I was expecting never materialised. I was, obviously, careful when I was eating ( using just one side of the mouth), but other than that I was absolutely fine, never in need of taking any painkillers. Beeing the cautious person that I am, I didn't allow myself to jump for joy prematurely, just in case some unwanted side effect appeared at the later stage, but I think, it's safe to say that, by now, all is good and it will stay this way. 

This morning I had my breakfast almost fully using both sides of my mouth,  so it looks like things are coming back to normal. 

I said to my husband that the fact that I did not have any pain after such an invasive and complicated procedure was an absolute miracle. But then I corrected myself. Saying that it was a miracle would simply imply just luck and, therefore, be very unfair to Dr Selouk. It is his great knowledge and expertise  which ( with your efficient help!) made this fantastic result possible. In fact, the whole experience (which I had been dreading out of fear of anticipated pain) was made so much easier for me that I have no enough words to praise!

The rest of the team ( both Joanne and Katherine) were so warm and welcoming and Joanne has even given me her mobile number to contact, should anything worrying happened over the weekend.

The music played during the procedure was also very soothing and appreciated. On practical level, the mouth support ( something that I'd never been offered before) was extremely helpful as, for once, after having to have my mouth open for a long time, I did not end up with the persisting pain of the jaw joint!

So it's a BIG THANK YOU to everybody and, of course,  especially to Dr Selouk for the magnificent job!

Daniel Simmons from Herne Bay describes his root canal treatment at 99 Harley street.

Joanne, Thanks for your note. Tooth feels great! Absolutely normal. Later on Wednesday it just felt a bit grippy once the dope had worn off, but nothing to hurl down painkillers over, and as of Thursday morning there was nothing at all to suggest I’d had anything done. No sensitivity when eating or anything like that.

Also many thanks to you and Richard and your other colleague (whose name I must admit I’ve forgotten) for a very enjoyable session at your surgery on Wednesday. I’d circled ‘not anxious about dentistry’ on the form, and I’m not. But still, going to a Harley Street dentist is a bit of an adventure for me: you don’t know quite what to expect so you’re just a little bit apprehensive. And it was actually great fun. The whole mood was breezy and chatty and friendly, and also quite fascinating and massively informative. And what I suppose you’d have to call a pretty invasive procedure was astonishingly pain-free (even the anaesthetic injection, which is usually a bit wince-inducing).

Most importantly, of course, Richard was able to identify the perp. I’m greatly relieved that we should be on the way to fixing the problem. It was surprising to learn that abscesses aren’t always painful, even when they fully hit their stride. Not my experience! (Is all I can say). I think I’m pretty tough about pain – e.g., permanent severe sciatic nerve pain which I can put up with, no prob – but tooth abscesses are in a whole different league, and have given me some really desperate days and nights. Not quite suicidal, but getting along that way to a worrying degree. My tooth abscesses laugh at dihydrocodeine (I think it’s called? Like Paramol now, and high-dose DF118 back in the day). So I’m pretty motivated on this one!

I’d been sceptical about the in-chair entertainment. It had seemed highly improbable that I’d be able to switch off from the procedure and casually take in a movie or whatever, but it worked really well! I pretty much forgot about the root-canal action, and was fully engaged with the programme which was very funny. I’ll be happy to take another episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm next trip. Actually I also thought the sort of dry-dock arrangement in the mouth helped a lot. Obviously that’s to aid the dentist’s manoeuvres rather than being for the patient’s comfort, but in an odd way it did help me to disassociate myself from what was going on in my gob – which has to be a good thing.

Hope you don’t mind me going on a bit. Since I was replying anyway, I just wanted to say a couple of other things since I can’t speak highly enough of the treatment I received on Wednesday.