About Rawdon Lights Dental Practice
Don’t let fear keep you away. At Rawdon Lights Dental Care in Leeds, we provide pain-free dental treatments, and are a dental practice that always puts customer satisfaction and safety at the forefront of everything we do. We are a welcome and considerate practice that is full of smiles (literally).
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Our head dentist Matt Hawker is extremely passionate about helping nervous people to get the dental care that they need. He has spent years implementing pain free procedures such as the quick sleeper system to allow us to offer our customers painless injections and reassurance throughout your entire visit.
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With a BCHD In Dentistry from Leeds University (1997) and an MSc in the Control of Pain and Anxiety from Manchester University (2008) its fair to say he is a bit of an expert!
Friendly Atmosphere
Years of Experience
Conveniently Situated
Our Commitment to You
At Rawdon Lights dental care we have a long history of treating patients with mental capacity problems. We happily involve family in issues involving consent and treatment planning as part of a group discussion.
We aim to give good advice to help people caring for others so that they can look after the oral hygiene of people in their care.
​We also offer home visits for patients with mobility issues and have an emergency call out service if you require urgent attention.
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Meet The Team
Matt Hawker
Hi I’m Matt the dentist and I qualified from Leeds dental school in 1997. I started working at Rawdon Lights dental care in 2000 so I have a bit of catching up to do before I overtake Gail! I completed an advanced restorative dentistry course with Paul Tipton in 2006 which gave me the bug for learning again. Following this I started a Master's degree in pain and anxiety management at Manchester dental school and qualified form there in 2008. My area of interest in dentistry is in helping people who find dental treatment difficult to get the treatment that they need, and hopefully for them to get the smiles that they aspire to. I’m a big believer that communication is the key- I always try to get to the bottom of problems that people are having, and to understand the cause of their dental anxiety. My aim is to get these people dentally healthy so that we’re just maintaining healthy mouths and avoiding nasty surprises.
Outside work I have a wife and three children so life is quite full. I love walking in the countryside and I play tuba in a brass band. This gives me a fairly unique understanding of the effect of teeth on playing musical instruments meaning that I can help other people to keep enjoying their pastime for as long as possible. My favourite pastime is playing in a band with the rest of my family- the Hawkestra!
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For more information or to book an appointment with our team, give us a call today.