Start Smiling

Start Smiling – Best Dental Clinic in Essex offer you quality dental treatment with the highest level of customer service.

Our Promise To You is that all our team members at Start Smiling work together with a common purpose: to ensure every client, whether requiring general or cosmetic dentistry, experiences the very highest quality care with every treatment, every time.

Rest assured, you will be receiving the highest standards of treatment from well qualified, vastly experienced clinicians. We are wholly a private practice.

We respect our clients’ personal needs and strive daily to provide a clean, friendly environment where you can feel relaxed enough to chat with our team members, while enjoying a cup of freshly ground coffee.

And we take great personal pride in the knowledge that our entire team put your care, well being and dental health as our first priority.
Each day at the practice we ask our patients to complete a brief survey to measure our performance. We ask the following 6 questions:

Was your visit stress free, calm and gentle :
Were you seen on time:
Was your visit pain free:
Was your visit anxiety free:
Did we listen and were we respectful:
Are you likely to recommend us:
Dr Tom has won the award of ‘Best Young Dentist’ at the prestigious Dentistry Awards on more than one occasion (2015 & 2016) and was shortlisted as a finalist in the 2017 and 2018 Dentistry Awards. He won 5 awards at the 2018 Aesthetic Dentistry Awards and has been shortlisted for 11 categories in the upcoming 2019 Awards in March. These Awards celebrate the most beautiful cosmetic dentistry from around the UK and are considered the pinnacle of achievement for cosmetic dentists. Wish him luck for the upcoming award ceremony in March.

Dr Tom qualified from Leeds University in 2006 with Bachelors in Dental Surgery. He moved to Essex where he worked in a very large NHS Dental Practice for 8 years before becoming the Practice Principal at Start-Smiling. During this time he completed a Master degree in Medical Education and became an Equivalency Trainer and a Foundation Dental Trainer which means he trained newly-qualified dentists.

Dr Tom’s passion for learning continued as he went on to complete his second Master degree, Endodontic Practice at Queen Mary University of London. This training provides Dr Tom with more advanced skills and knowledge and enables him to complete root canal treatments to a much higher standard using a sophisticated dental microscope and therefore improves successful outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Dr Tom’s vast experience with many different types of cosmetic orthodontic appliances and his passion for pain-free and injection-free cosmetic smile makeovers has led him towards being an international lecturer. He lectures around the world and teaches other dentists about advanced cosmetic dental techniques. He writes for many Dental Publications and is on the Editorial board of the prestigious magazine Orthodontic Practice. Examples of his clinical work have reached international recognition, being published in Cosmetic dentistry Journals around the world to demonstrate to other dentists what amazing smile transformations can be achieved with minimally invasive and pain-free dental techniques.

Dr Tom runs his own course in the UK where dentists travel from far and wide to learn his techniques and try to emulate his precise and beautiful smile makeovers. The below video is Dr Tom in action, teaching on one of his courses: