Patients follow hygienist to Shrewsbury dental clinic

The Dental Spa on Oxon Business Park recruited Pauline Gates after The Dental Clinic at Optical Express where she worked on Pride Hill closed down. What they did not realise at the time was that Pauline’s patients would miss her so much that they would follow her to her new place of work.

Pauline, who lives in Prees, began her career as a dental nurse in the Army where she worked in the oral surgery department at Woolwich Military Hospital. She later studied at the Royal Dental School of Dental Hygiene, gaining a Diploma in Dental Hygiene in 1985.

After a spell in the US Pauline returned to the UK twenty years ago and settled in Shropshire where she has worked in both general dentistry and referral practices. She is a member of the British Dental Hygienists Association, the British Dental Health Foundation and the British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapy.

Welcoming Pauline to The Dental Spa, which is the hub practice for Velvet Group, Practice Manager Deb Price said: “Motivated by the challenges of helping patients to achieve healthy mouths and smiles to be proud of, Pauline has fitted in well with the rest of our expanding team and has a particular interest in helping nervous patients to gain confidence and feel in control of what is happening in their mouths. Clearly these attributes have gained her an enviable reputation as many of her former patients have followed her to The Dental Spa. ”