About
I am Hamid Choudhary, a dentist. This site explains what dental treatment actually involves — what happens, what it feels like, and the questions worth asking — in the detail there is rarely time for in the chair.
You can leave a dental appointment with a reasonable idea of what was done and a much vaguer idea of why.
The explanation happens while you are lying down, half numb, with somebody’s hands in your mouth. It is not a good moment for taking anything in.
So I write the version you can read at your own pace, with nothing being done to you while you read.
It covers what people want to know and often do not ask: what the noise is, how long it takes, whether it will hurt, and what happens if you leave it.
The guides explain how teeth work and what goes wrong with them.
The before-and-after pages are narrower and more practical — what a particular appointment involves, and what to do in the days after it.
It is an information site, not a practice: no appointments, and nothing for sale.
How it is written
Technical words are used where they are the right word, and explained the first time. Where something genuinely varies between people, it says so, rather than offering a tidy number that happens to be wrong for you.
Telling someone not to rinse after brushing is an instruction they will forget. Telling them rinsing washes the fluoride off is a reason they will keep. Nearly every page here is built that way.
Fluoride concentrations, NHS entitlements, how wisdom teeth are assessed and what is free during pregnancy are all specific to the UK. Advice written for another healthcare system can be confidently wrong here.
Who writes this
This site names a dentist, so it owes you the means to check that. The General Dental Council keeps a public register, and the number below is what you look up in it.
Dr Hamid Choudhary
Dentist
DMD — Doctor of Dental Medicine (2023)
Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
GDC registration number: 314215
Registered with the General Dental Council as Hamid Usman Choudhary. The number opens the register’s own entry.
This site is a personal educational resource rather than a dental practice. Nothing here is a consultation: there are no appointments, no treatment and no advice about your own mouth.