Built to lower shoulders.
Four calm surgeries, a reception that doesn’t smell of clove oil, and a team hired for chairside manner as much as qualifications.
Started by a dentist with a nervous mother.
Dr Amara Lantern opened the practice in 2012 with one design brief: build the surgery her own mother would actually attend. Longer appointments, prices on paper, and a promise that nobody gets talked into anything while horizontal.
Thirteen years in, the brief hasn’t changed — it’s just been repeated three surgeries over.
Four promises, kept chairside.
On the wall in reception, honoured in every surgery.
Nothing unexplained
Every finding shown on screen, every option priced, in plain words.
The stop signal
Raise a hand and we stop — instantly, mid-anything, no sigh.
Prevention first
The cheapest dentistry is the check-up you didn’t skip. We plan around that.
No surprise bills
The plan you sign is the price you pay. Changes need your yes first.
A calm Tuesday at Lantern Yard.
What the place actually feels like.
Reception
Coffee, quiet, no clove oil
Surgery one
Ceiling screens, warm light
The scanner
Goodbye, impression goo
Hygiene suite
Where the quiet work happens
The kids' corner
First visits, made easy
Decontamination
The unglamorous obsession
Five clinicians, one manner.
Hired for hands and hired for kindness — we interview for both.
Dr Amara Lantern
Principal Dentist & Founder
Dr Yusuf Rahmani
Associate Dentist
Bea Okafor
Lead Hygienist
Come meet us before you commit.
Book a no-treatment first visit — a look, a chat, a plan on paper, and nothing in your mouth but a mirror unless you ask.