Two dentists, a hygienist and four chairs
Open since 2017 on the first floor of Fareedhee Magu.
The diary decided everything else
This clinic opened with two chairs and a diary that booked times with a dentist, which is how almost every clinic does it and which went wrong here every week for two years.
Two dentists share three chairs in a session, because a filling that is setting and an injection taking effect both need a chair and not a dentist. So a session holds more dentist time than chair time, and a diary that sells dentist time sells appointments there is no room for.
Turning it round so that the booking form holds a chair fixed the mix ups in a week and gave us two other things for nothing. The website now shows exactly what is free, which sometimes looks thin. And once a chair can be asked for by name, the quiet room at the back became something you tick rather than something you have to explain at the desk.
What we hold to
Nothing agreed in the chair
A plan read lying down with a light in your eyes is not a plan you agreed to.
The quote before the work
If a tooth needs more than expected, we stop and give you the new figure.
We refer rather than stretch
Braces, implants and anything needing a general anaesthetic go elsewhere on day one.
The four of us
Dr Hussain Ziyad
Qualified in Chennai, eighteen years in practice, eleven of them in Malé. Opened the rooms in 2017 with two chairs and added the quiet room...
Dr Fathimath Reema
Takes most of the children's appointments and the nervous adults. Will spend the first ten minutes of an appointment doing nothing at all if...
Sofiya Nashfa
Three sessions a week in chair four. Does every scale and clean here and will tell you exactly what your brushing is missing.
Ahmed Lirar
Holds the cancellation list, hands out the chair kept free each session, and is the person who decides whether somebody in pain comes in thi...