Bryer Wallace, Belgravia

My name is Jose Fontesi, and I am a neural surgeon. Treatments that I offer are everything that relates with surgery—from extractions to biopsies to implants. Everything that involves surgery, oral surgery, I can provide. There's the natural line of the treatment that starts with a consultation, the explanation of the procedure, then the procedure itself, and then the follow-up. This is the patient's journey. The things that we can do to complement that is to put the patient first, to really care about what you're doing, and to really care that the patient has a good outcome regardless of everything else. So, patient first—always. We work on a referral basis and obviously, as a clinician and as an oral surgeon, I was trained first as a dentist, so I can identify any other issues that the patient may present with. We have a very good internal communication system that can send the information across between clinicians. I think anxious patients get anxious when you throw the word "surgery" into the equation. So with that, if you guide the patient through the procedure, if you explain to the patient what to expect, and if you show that you're confident enough to provide a good treatment, I think it's a very important step for them to be relaxed and confident about having the treatment with you. So I try to do that as best as I can.

So my name is Dr. Maria Kalkani. I am a specialist in pediatric dentistry and I work at Bryer Wallace Belgravia at 11A West Halkin Street. At West Halkin Street, we offer a wide range of services to address the oral health needs of children—from preventive care to more specialized procedures—and that's from babies to adolescence. Prevention is the foundation of pediatric dentistry, and this includes regular checkups, regular cleanings, fluoride treatments, dental sealants to protect against cavities. We, of course, teach kids how to look after their teeth—how to brush, how to floss—and we help them develop the skills and set them up for lifelong good habits. Obviously, sometimes children require restorative work, and that is fillings to repair cavities or crowns to repair more severely decayed teeth. For deeper cavities, we can perform pulp treatments, which are nerve treatments for baby teeth. And of course, we're here for emergencies—we're here for dental trauma, whether it's adult teeth or baby teeth. We also have expertise in minor oral surgery, which includes impacted teeth or exposing developing young adult teeth. I'm very lucky that I have access to state-of-the-art equipment here, including a very highly efficient and versatile laser. Of course, as a specialist pediatric dentist, I'm equipped with a wide range of behavior management tools and techniques that I can employ according to each child's specific needs. For small or very anxious children, or children and teenagers that need more extensive work, I can provide treatment with either inhalation sedation or treat them under general anesthetic in a hospital environment. Our ethos at West Halkin Street is to involve parents in decision-making and explain to them the reasons for treatment and, of course, potential outcomes. We educate parents and carers on oral health and share information about developmental milestones and potential orthodontic needs for the children. We always try to address parental anxiety, which is expected, and we try to normalize children's behavior. For patients with additional special needs, we provide pre-visit chats and tips and form specific strategies for each child based on their preferences or any particular sensitivities that they might have. I employ different techniques like breaking down the procedures into very small, non-threatening steps, which again helps the children understand what to expect. I offer praise when appropriate and I offer rewards to help motivation. We make sure we engage with children in conversation. We use visual aids like cartoons in order to shift their focus from what is actually happening—that can be really helpful.

My name is Dr. Nikita Desai. I'm a dentist whose focus is medical regenerative aesthetics. I offer a wide range of medical regenerative-based treatments. Those include things like PRP, PRF, polynucleotide treatments, and exosome treatments. Essentially, they're treatments where we are delivering something into the skin or into the hair that's going to change the way the cells of the body work. So it's very different from something like a dermal filler, where we inject a volumizer that stays there for a certain period of time and your body metabolizes it. These are very different because we inject something that gets the cells in your body working differently. My approach allows patients to achieve slightly more natural results. A lot of the patients that I see are worried about looking different or looking like different people and not feeling like themselves once they go down the route of having injectable treatment. The treatments that I offer allow a patient to remain exactly how they are. We're working on improving the health of the skin, and those results happen gradually over time because we need to allow time for the body to build things like collagen and elastin. From that, you also achieve undetectable results. My approach is to allow a patient to explain their concerns to me. We work on those concerns and we try to set a plan of where they want to be with that. Often, a patient needs to understand that it's not going to be an immediate result, and sometimes I work with patients over the course of a year to try and achieve the goals that they're looking for. So my approach is always a dynamic approach, and we're always checking in with that patient, seeing that they are happy with their results so we know that they are really achieving something that they want.