Dentists

Patient Satisfaction and Retention​

Patients benefit from the dentist/specialist endodontist partnership.

Looking after your patients and providing them with first class treatment and care is at the very heart of Edinburgh Endodontist. We are a monospecialist Endodontics practice and use the very best equipment available. You can rest assured that your patients will be extremely well looked after whilst they are under our care. Patients will be referred back to you for their routine and restorative care. Excellence in specialist endodontic treatment can only be achieved in a multidisciplinary team. Dentists remain the treatment manager of the team and work in partnership with specialist endodontist to achieve a high success rate.

Patient state of mind & outcomes:

Dental work, in general, causes fear let alone root canals, which cause even more anxiety. Many adults already fear the dentist unfortunately. Pain is the top reason adults avoid the dentist, and root canal treatment is the most feared dental procedure. (2008 Omnibus Survey AAE)

Evidence shows that adults are more afraid of getting a root canal (54%) than of speaking in public or interviewing for a job (both 42%). (2008 Omnibus Survey AAE)

A dentist partnering with a specialist endodontist can put patients more at ease. We use various methods of delivering pain free anaesthesia including IV sedation.

• 89% of patients are satisfied after a root canal by a specialist endodontist.
• Patients who have a root canal treatment performed by specialist endodontists are more satisfied than those who have the procedure performed by general dentists. (US National Consumer Awareness Survey, 2008)
• 96% of dental educators who have been treated by a specialist endodontist have had a positive or very positive experience. (US Survey of Dental Educators and Students, December 2008)

Cost:

Involving a specialist endodontist in root canal treatment can save patients time and money.

• Specialist endodontists have the expertise to do everything from the most common to most complex root canals, diminishing the need for retreatment.
• While most complex treatments certainly require more than one visit, some root canals can be completed by specialist endodontists in a single appointment.
• Root canals performed by specialist endodontists provide patients with a solid foundation for crowns and other restorative work, reducing the likelihood of future complications and costs.
• By saving the natural teeth through root canal treatment, specialist endodontists save patients the expense associated with losing teeth, which causes multiple problems over the long term and costs much more. (e.g. shifting teeth, follow-up visits to place and maintain prosthetics, etc.)
• A comparison of endodontic treatments performed by general dentists or by specialist endodontists showed that endodontic treatment was significantly more successful when performed by a specialist, based on a comparison of survival of teeth following endodontic treatment. [Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 2004 Jul;98(1):115-8; Alabama study].