General Dentistry

Highfield Dental Practice

At Highfield Dental Practice, we offer a full range of General Dentistry services to maintain and restore your oral health. From routine fillings to preventive treatments like fluoride applications and fissure sealants, our dental team in Barrow-in-Furness ensures that your smile stays strong and healthy for years to come. Whether you’re addressing decay, protecting your teeth from cavities, or enhancing your overall oral hygiene, we’re here to provide the care you need.

Highfield Dental Practice

General Dentistry

At Highfield Dental Practice, we offer a full range of General Dentistry services to maintain and restore your oral health. From routine fillings to preventive treatments like fluoride applications and fissure sealants, our dental team in Barrow-in-Furness ensures that your smile stays strong and healthy for years to come. Whether you’re addressing decay, protecting your teeth from cavities, or enhancing your overall oral hygiene, we’re here to provide the care you need.

Highfield Dental Practice

What Can General Dentistry Help With?

Here's what you get:

  • Cavities and tooth decay

  • Preventing cavities in children and adults

  • Restoring damaged or weakened teeth

  • Improving overall oral health

  • 0% Finance Options

Worth the value

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About Us

Best Dental Care in Dartford for Over 25 Years

Highfield Dental Practice has proudly served Dartford for more than two decades, offering high-quality dental care with a dedicated team of professionals. We are committed to treating each patient with personalized care, whether they need routine check-ups or advanced cosmetic procedures. Our team, led by Dr. Swati Singh, strives to uphold our reputation as the most trusted dental center in Dartford, always ensuring that our patients receive the best possible treatment in a caring and comfortable environment.

Why Choose General Dentistry?

✅ Comprehensive Care for All Ages

We offer general dentistry treatments that cater to patients of all ages, from children to adults.

✅ Prevention and Restoration

From preventing cavities to treating tooth decay, our services cover a wide range of dental needs, ensuring long-term oral health.

✅ Comfortable, Stress-Free Treatment

Our skilled team uses the latest techniques and technology to ensure your comfort during every visit.

How General Dentistry Works at Highfield Dental Practice

  1. Consultation and Assessment:
    Your treatment begins with a detailed consultation at
    Highfield Dental Practice in Barrow-in-Furness. We’ll assess your oral health and determine the best general dentistry treatments to meet your needs.

  1. Fillings for Cavities:
    Our
    white fillings repair cavities and decayed teeth with natural-looking composite materials, restoring your tooth’s function and appearance.

  1. Fluoride Applications for Added Protection:

    Fluoride applications strengthen your teeth by helping remineralize enamel, protecting against cavities, and reducing tooth sensitivity.

  1. Fissure Sealants for Preventing Decay:

Fissure sealants are applied to the deep grooves of your back teeth to protect against decay and make cleaning easier, especially for children.

Benefits of General Dentistry at Highfield Dental Practice

Prevents Serious Dental Issues

Regular general dentistry appointments help prevent cavities, decay, and other dental problems before they worsen.

Restores Damaged Teeth

Fillings and other restorative treatments ensure that your teeth stay healthy and strong, even after decay.

Customized for You

We tailor every treatment plan to meet your unique dental health needs, whether you’re focused on prevention or restoration.

Family-Friendly

Our general dentistry services are suitable for patients of all ages, making us a one-stop practice for your entire family.

Maintaining Your Dental Health at Highfield Dental Practice

At Highfield Dental Practice, maintaining your oral health with regular check-ups, cleanings, and general dentistry treatments is key to long-term well-being. Our team in Barrow-in-Furness provides personalized advice and care to ensure that your teeth stay strong, healthy, and cavity-free for life.

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Get Started with General Dentistry Today!

Whether you need a filling, fluoride application, or fissure sealant,

Highfield Dental Practice in Barrow-in-Furness is here to help. Contact us today to schedule your consultation and maintain a healthy, beautiful smile.

0% Finance Options for Affordable Dental Care

At Highfield Dental Practice, we offer 0% finance options to help make high-quality dental care affordable and accessible for everyone. With our flexible payment plans, you can spread the cost of your treatment without the stress of upfront payments, ensuring you get the care you need without delay.

What dental services does Highfield Dental Practice offer?

At Highfield Dental Practice, we provide a wide range of dental services, including general dentistry, cosmetic treatments like teeth whitening and veneers, orthodontics (Invisalign and braces), and restorative treatments such as dental implants and crowns. Our team is dedicated to offering personalized care to meet your unique dental needs.

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Do you offer emergency dental care?

Yes, Highfield Dental Practice offers same-day emergency dental care. If you’re experiencing severe pain, broken teeth, or any other urgent dental issues, contact us immediately for fast, effective treatment.

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What are the payment options at Highfield Dental Practice?

We offer flexible payment options, including 0% finance plans, to make dental care affordable for everyone. Our team will guide you through the payment options to help you choose the best plan for your needs.

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What is a dental check up for?

During a dental check up, or dental examination, we carry out a full hard and soft tissue assessment, oral cancer screening, and if required, we may advise some radiographs to assess where the eyes cannot see. We record all of this information in your clinical notes to monitor any changes and improvements to your mouth, and then we will inform you of our findings, and provide you with a customised treatment plan. 

Why would I need x-rays? 

X-rays are essential for accurate diagnosis and treatment planning appropriately for tooth decay, and gum disease. Routine x-rays are generally taken every 24 months. Radiographs also show us what is lying under the gum, and in the bone, such as impacted teeth, abscesses, cysts, and many other abnormalities. Your dentist will let you know specifically in your case why an x-ray has been advised, and of any findings.

Are x-rays harmful?

Two ‘bitewing’ radiographs, which are taken at 24 month intervals, contain the same radiation as four bananas. 

Do you offer a payment plan?

We offer a 0% finance option for our patients to spread the cost monthly on treatment plans over £1000.

How often should I attend the dentist?

Every 6 months is widely recommended by the General Dental Council, and the Care Quality Commission. This is to maintain optimum oral hygiene with regular visits to the Dental Therapist, and regularly assess the oral tissues to treat any problems before they become more serious. 

Why do I need a scale and polish?

Your Dentist will recommend a scale and polish, if there are plaque or calculus deposits, gingival inflammation, and/or gum disease. They will often refer you to the Practice’s Dental Hygiene Therapist. Calculus can only be removed by a dental professional and will not come away with toothbrushing or flossing. If it is left on the teeth for a long period of time, the gums become inflamed, leading to tissue and bone loss around the teeth, at this point, gum disease becomes irreversible, and if it continues untreated, extensive bone and tissue loss occurs, which can lead to mobile teeth, loss of teeth, infections and pain.

What is a dental Implant?

Dental Implants offer a welcome alternative to dentures or bridgework that doesn’t fit well, or if a lack of natural teeth disallow a bridge. They look and function like your natural teeth, and are put in place of a missing tooth or multiple missing teeth. Implants are a metal screwlike post that is placed into the jaw, and either a crown, a bridge, or a ‘snap-in’ denture can be placed over the top.

Why should I consider dental implants?

If you are missing a tooth, and nothing is placed in it’s gap – there is a risk of overeruption of the opposing tooth as there is nothing for it to bite on, which may result in mobile teeth or further tooth loss, as well as this, the surrounding teeth can migrate into it’s place over time, this can make cleaning the area difficult, and after some time, gap replacement may not be an option due to lack of space. Dentures overtime can become ill-fitting, or cause discomfort, or simply, you may not be able to get used to them – implants are the Gold Standard for tooth replacement as they are fixed, and the closest option to a natural tooth.

How painful is getting a dental implant?

Patient’s experience no pain during Implant placement, and our patient’s feedback tell us that it is similar, or less discomfort than having a tooth extraction. You can expect to feel some pressure when the implant is placed, and some post-operative aching, similar to a bruise.

How can I make my teeth whiter?

We offer an at home teeth whitening kit, it is a one time payment for your trays and kit, and when you would like a top up, the whitening gels are available to buy at the practice. Teeth whitening is a simple and effective treatment to lighten the teeth by up to eight shades lighter, and it is customisable to you – once you are happy with the shade, you can stop whitening them.

Is teeth straightening only suitable for children?

No, Invisalign is a treatment for any age, it is effective for adults who would like to improve the appearance of their smile, whether it is due to crowding, spacing, overbites, underbites, crossbites, or ‘heavy’ bites which are prone to cause the teeth to chip over time. As we age, the jaw naturally becomes more narrow which can cause the teeth to overlap and become crowded, Invisalign is also suitable for cases like this.

Why have I been advised to have a filling when I have no pain?

Tooth decay, in it’s early stages, will usually not cause any problems or pain - at this stage, it is possible to remove and place a filling as it is only affecting the enamel and/or dentine. If the decay or defect is left untreated, and begins causing pain or hypersensitivity, the treatment options become limited, the dentine is affected, and has reached the pulp (nerve) chamber; meaning a root canal treatment may be advised to save the tooth, though your only option at this stage may be to extract the tooth.

Why did pain come back after I had antibiotics?

Unlike other infections in the body, where antibiotics will usually resolve an infection permanently, teeth are quite different. As the cavity has affected the nerve, this causes an infection to build up at the root; antibiotics will temporarily reduce this infection, minimising pain, but after some time it will return as the nerve is still affected. Your dentist will have advised you on the treatment options to permanently resolve the infection.

Why can’t I have a filling instead of Root Canal Treatment?

A filling is to treat a cavity only in the enamel or the dentine. If you have been advised a root canal treatment, the nerve has been affected. If a filling is placed in this circumstance, it essentially ‘suffocates’ the nerve, causing infection to build at the root, usually very painful, and may cause facial swelling. The only way to treat a tooth infection, is with a root canal treatment, as the nerve is removed and the tooth is preserved in the mouth.

Get In Touch

Assistance Hours

Mon – Fri 9:00am – 5:30pm

Saturday-Sunday – CLOSED

Christmas Opening Hours

23/12/24 - 8:30am – 5:30pm

24/12/24 - 8:30am – 2:00pm

Christmas Day – CLOSED

Boxing Day – CLOSED

27/12/24 - 8:30am – 5:30pm

31/12/24 - 8:30am – 2:00pm

New Years Day – CLOSED

2/1/25: Normal Hours

Phone Number:

+44 1229 829953

31 Oxford St, Barrow-in-Furness LA14 5QJ, UK

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