Aoife opened Fennel in 2016 after fourteen years in practices that ran on fifteen-minute slots. The model here is the opposite.
Fewer patients a day · Longer appointments
Three surgeries, a lot of daylight, and no waiting room television. The chairs face a window rather than a ceiling poster, which sounds trivial until you have spent forty minutes in one.
Thirty-minute minimum appointments. Nobody is rushed out of the chair to make a schedule work.
The same clinician every time, unless you ask otherwise. Continuity is most of good dentistry.
Written quotes before treatment, always including the option of doing nothing yet.
No commission on treatment. Nobody here earns more by recommending more.
Principal dentist
BDS Bristol, 2002. Restorative work and the nervous-patient appointments nobody else wants to take.
Hygienist
Gum health and periodontal maintenance. Will show you the X-ray rather than describe it.
Aligners & restorative
Runs the clear-aligner cases end to end, from the first scan to the retainer.
Practice manager
Books everything, chases your insurer, and is the voice on the phone before ten in the morning.
Pick a time online, or call and speak to Nell — an actual person at an actual desk, not a queue.