Around half of the UK population have dental phobia, and 12% have severe anxiety. Few clinicians understand this as keenly as this week’s guest, Laleh Sharifian, who now spends her time as a sedationist.
Laleh recounts her journey pursuing a lifelong vocation into dentistry and sedation from being an early entrant at Guy’s, aged just 17.
She lets us in on the experiences that promoted her to decide that practice ownership wasn’t for her, discusses a day in the life of a sedationist and talks about her love of scents and fragrances.
Enjoy!
02.20 - Patient management
10.23 - Favourite practices
15.28 - Focusing on sedation
19.38 - Heavy duty Vs shorter treatments
23.04 - Introducing sedation to patients
27.26 - ICS Guidelines
31.15 - Sedation for children and young people
33.45 - Medical histories, contraindications and complications
39.11 - Challenging scenarios
48.00 - Blackbox thinking
53.52 - Backstory
01.00.49 - Why dentistry
01.03.57 - Parents, flavour and fragrances
01.09.40 - Guy’s and London
01.14.55 - Student life
01.17.21 - Specialising
01.20.20 - VT, first practice, ownership and beyond
01.31.37 - Regrets and failures
01.34.37 - Instagram and spirits
01.36.56 - Fantasy dinner party
01.45.21 - Last days and legacy
Laleh Sharifian graduated from Guy’s Hospital in 1999, where her final year of research working on sedation and dental anxiety won the Malleson prize.
She completed a postgraduate diploma in sedation at GKT in 2002 under Drs David Craig and Carole Boyle.
Laleh is part of the faculty of the Society for Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry (SAAD) and practices sedation under the Ivy Sedation brand.
