The Role Of The Dental Therapist In Dentistry

A dental team is a multi-talented group, but the chances are you only know about a few of them.

You will undoubtedly know about the dentist and nurse who provide your routine care as well as our reception team members, and perhaps met the specialist Orthodontist, but there are a number of additional team members who provide a variety of dental treatments, with them being specialists in their respective field.

Dental therapists often work at dental practices providing dental hygienist treatments, but they are highly skilled members of the team who assist dentists in providing dental care to patients.

Their remit involves providing treatments such as fillings, teeth whitening, periodontal treatments as well as other treatments. The full scope of their role here, on the British Association of Dental Therapy website.

Over the coming months, we will be utilising dental therapists to help improve our patient access and allow patients to be seen sooner. Given the backlog in patients following the pandemic and the increased demands on the whole dental team, we need to ensure we can see patients as quickly as possible to decrease the waiting times for treatment and allow our dentists to focus on more advanced treatments.

Dental therapists are subject to the same high standards as Dentists and monitored and regulated by the General Dental Council. In addition, the use of such valuable and skilled team members is endorsed by the NHS and British Dental Association.

Your dentist will discuss with you at the time of your examination if you will need to see our therapists for your dental care.