Patient resources
Consent forms
Before any treatment, you should know what it involves, what can go wrong and what the alternatives are. Each page below sets that out in plain English — read whichever applies to you, whether or not you're booked in with us.
Having a tooth removed
What an extraction involves, the risks including dry socket and nerve injury, and what your alternatives are.
Root canal treatment
Saving a tooth whose nerve has died — how it works, why it isn't guaranteed, and what happens if it doesn't.
Crowns, veneers and bridges
Rebuilding a tooth with porcelain — what's removed, what can go wrong, and how long the work lasts.
Dental implants
Replacing a missing tooth — the timeline, the risks, and what makes an implant succeed or fail.
More forms will be added here over time. If the treatment you're booked for isn't listed yet, we'll go through everything with you in person as usual — nothing changes.
Signing online, and what it means
If your dentist has asked you to complete a form before your appointment, you can read it and sign at the bottom of the page on your phone — no printing, no scanning.
Signing online confirms you've read and understood the information. It isn't consent on its own. Your dentist will still go through it with you and confirm your consent in person before any treatment starts, and you can change your mind at any point up to then.
If you'd rather read it on paper, or you'd like to go through it with us over the phone first, call 07 4635 1444 — that's completely fine and it's how it has always worked.
Before and after your appointment
How to prepare is on our pre-appointment page, and what to do afterwards is on our aftercare page. Everything else we hand our patients is in patient resources.