Dr Andrea Wraith

BDS, BA, MB BChir, MMedSci

Andrea is qualified as both a dentist and doctor, and is the Founder of ASA MedCare.

She began life as a dental anaesthetist and has a Masters degree in dental anaesthesia. She has a long record of involvement with anxiety and pain control in dentistry; she was Editor of the SAAD Digest for over ten years, European representative to the International Federation of Dental Anaesthesiology Societies (IFDAS) for six and a Council member of the European Federation for the Advancement of Anaesthesia in Dentistry (EFAAD). She has been providing sedation services for dental patients for over seventeen years and has been teaching dental sedation to doctors and dentists for over ten. She has organised international conferences and has designed and set-up many sedation and medical emergency courses, including the Eastman Sedation Course.

Andrea is currently a Council member of the Section of Anaesthesia of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM).

Andrea has worked for many years in general dental practice and specialist dental clinics as well as in hospital based medicine in Accident and Emergency and as an anaesthetist.

She has acted as an expert advisor to local health authorities investigating serious incidents related to dental sedation and also advises on standards of care in sedation clinics; undertaking inspections of such clinics for both private companies and local health authorities to ensure the clinics meet current standards. She has also been involved in setting up a number of new sedation clinics; advising on patient selection, suitable sedation techniques, staff training, equipment provision, and helping the clinics design protocols and procedures to provide safe and effective sedation for dental procedures provided on a day care basis.

Andrea believes in the holistic approach to pain and anxiety control in dentistry and is happy to discuss cases and advise on the most suitable management strategies in order to provide safe and effective anxiety and pain control.

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