At least 10 – 15% of the population are so anxious about a dental visit that they never go. In their Wiltshire dental practice, Howard Shrimpton and his Staff are interested in you and your dental problems. Allow us to hear your fears and discuss them. Patients from a wide area attend on this basis alone.














Just anticipating a visit causes them worry and sleeplessness. You personally may not have to imagine what state their mouths may be in, what needless discomfort, bad breath, or poor smiles they have. You may well know how these things affect a person’s quality of life.

Help them or help yourself and arrange to come to us for a First Visit: a visit that’s all talk and examination and no treatment! Your kind of visit? This is an appointment where we really are interested in how you feel, what your fears are. Together we can help you back to not only acceptable dental comfort and health, but to your own increased personal confidence in returning to us.

Mrs P had neglected her mouth and been too frightened to smile, too worried to attend, for years. This was the result. Finally she sensibly sought help. We arranged comfortable visits with the help of sedation, and she was proud of her final achievement. It changed her into a more cheerful outgoing person. Future dental visits were facilitated.


What to expect

We know you will need time to acclimatise. We make the time. You will have discovered on your First Visit that we took time and care to ensure that you didn’t go straight to the surgery or even have us look around your mouth in a hurry (as is too often the case with us dentists).

Most treatment plans are for quite simple work. By now you will have decided how you are going to be helped to see through your plan.

We will play your favourite music CDs if you bring them along, or we’ll play you some of our music CDs if you prefer.
Our trusted colleague Chris Altree is locally based and a qualified and very experienced hypnotherapist. There are a number of very grateful patients who have benefited from Chris’s kind and caring guidance on not only how to cope better with a reluctance to have dental treatment, but also on wider ranging self-management of life’s awkward situations. Often, after our initial suggestion of referral, they were a little wary of attending, but always very appreciative afterwards of this unusual service. If you're interested in Chris Altree's service, click here to email him.