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Freeway

For Dentists

Got an anxious patient? Give them a pathway forward.

Freeway — The Road to Fearless Dentistry is completely free for patients. It gives your practice a structured, ready-made way to support anxious patients before treatment — and the patient decides what, if anything, comes back to you.

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How the referral pathway works

  1. 1

    Invite

    Send a secure, unique link by first name and email from your practice dashboard.

  2. 2

    Private assessment

    The patient completes Freeway privately. You see only whether they have started or finished.

  3. 3

    Understand and plan

    They explore what drives their fear and build a one-page plan in their own words.

  4. 4

    Patient chooses

    At the end they decide whether to press “Send my report” — or keep it private.

  5. 5

    Received securely

    You're notified and read the plan after signing in. It isn't placed in an ordinary email.

The patient stays in control

An invitation does not give your practice access to any answers. You see only simple progress — invited, started, completed — until the patient actively chooses to share their final report.

Why dental teams use Freeway

  • Free for every patient
  • A ready-made dental-anxiety referral pathway
  • Helps patients identify triggers and preferences before the appointment
  • Gives your team useful information when the patient chooses to share
  • May support better conversations and preparation
  • No referral fee, and no subscription for the patient
  • Patient-controlled report sharing

Sedation can bypass anxiety. Why not help treat it too?

Sedation is a valuable, often essential, part of caring for anxious patients, and Freeway is not anti-sedation. It works alongside it: helping patients understand what drives their fear, prepare for appointments and tell you what helps — whether or not sedation is part of their care.

Freeway does not define success as becoming sedation-free.

How Freeway explains sedation options

What a shared plan may contain

Practical information in the patient’s words

  • Triggers and situations that feel hardest
  • A control or stop signal, and what should happen when it is used
  • Preferred communication style
  • Pain, local anaesthetic or injection concerns
  • Gagging, breathing, sensory or overwhelm concerns
  • What helps, what to avoid, and immediate or longer-term goals
  • Optional wording about previous experiences without pressure to disclose details

Redacted example, not a live record

How to help me with dental treatment

What I find difficult
Loss of control, injections and feeling judged.
What helps
Agreeing a stop signal, short explanations, time to pause, and no unexpected treatment.
My next step
A talk-only appointment before deciding on treatment.
QR code linking to beatdentalfear.co.uk

No account needed

Prefer not to sign up? Just share Freeway.

Show the QR code or share the public link. The patient can use Freeway anonymously, and can print, save as PDF, download or share their plan from their own device if they wish.

UKSedation

More about dental sedation at uksedation.com

UKSedation is part of the same family of resources as Freeway. Visit the website for more information about dental sedation in the UK, for you and for your patients.

Visit www.uksedation.com

Professional safeguards

Freeway is a patient-created communication aid. It is not a dental or psychological assessment, diagnosis, consent form, medical history, clinical instruction or substitute for the clinician’s own assessment and judgement. It does not claim to treat or cure anxiety.

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Start referring anxious patients today

Created by Dr Rob Endicott and Dr Roy Bennett at Warwickshire Dental Sedation Centre, with input from psychologists. Free for any UK patient, whichever dentist they use.

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