Dr. Zain Chishty
Co-Founder & Clinical Director
GDC 302209A letter from UrgentCare Dental
Relief. Repair. Kept for life.
The emergency clinic that became a dental home. A home that’s quietly becoming a country-wide one.
Dr. Zain Chishty
Clinical Director
Chapter One · Origin
Toothache doesn’t keep office hours.
It arrives at midnight. On bank holidays. The night before the wedding. And when it arrived, we kept hearing the same story: nowhere would pick up the phone.
So that became the practice. We converted a building on the Whitehall Estate in Armley and built UrgentCare Dental around one promise: when you call, we answer. Any hour, any day. You’re seen the same day, the assessment is £20 with X-rays included, and you hear the exact price of any treatment before you decide a thing. Pain first, paperwork later, no lecture in between.
Then came the part we hoped for but couldn’t have planned. The patients who found us on the worst night of their year kept coming back on the ordinary days. The cleaning they’d put off for years. The filling they’d been quietly worried about. The smile they’d stopped photographing. One emergency at a time, we became something better than an emergency clinic: we became people’s dental home.
Chapter Two · What matters
Four things we’re stubborn about.
The things that separate a dental clinic from a dental home are rarely glamorous. They’re the quiet decisions no-one sees. We make four of them, every day, without compromise.
01
Hand-picked clinicians.
We don’t settle for whoever’s nearby. We’ve recruited experienced dentists, hygienists, and specialists from across the UK — implant dentists, oral surgeons, restorative clinicians, sedation-trained dentists, cosmetic dentists. If someone on our team is doing your treatment, it’s because that treatment is their field, not because they happen to be on shift.
02
Premium materials. No shortcuts.
Every crown, every implant, every restoration, every prosthetic uses materials from the leading manufacturers in dentistry. We don’t chase the cheapest supplier to protect margin. What goes into your mouth is chosen for how long it will last you, not for what it costs us. This is the easiest place to cut corners in dentistry, and the place we quietly refuse to.
03
Every treatment, under one roof.
Emergency, sedation, implants, cosmetic, aligners, general dentistry, hygiene, oral surgery, full-mouth restoration. The cases other practices refer out, we handle in-house. One team, one set of notes, one relationship. You don’t have to explain your story twice.
04
Free follow-ups.
Every treatment we do comes with follow-up appointments at no charge — to check healing, adjust anything that needs it, and answer the questions that only come up after you’ve left the chair. “Has this settled right?” is part of the work. Not a separate invoice.
Chapter Three · Quietly proud
We built our own aligner lab.
Most clear-aligner pathways in the UK bounce through a lab in another country. A three-week wait. A clinician-who-never-sees-you signing off the plan. Trays that arrive and quietly don’t quite fit.
We got tired of that. So we built our own. UrgentCare Aligners are planned, made, and fitted by our team, in the same building. No three-week wait for a factory. No “it’s being reviewed” delays. If your tray needs adjusting, it’s adjusted that week. If your plan needs rethinking, a real dentist rethinks it — the same one you met at your consultation. Retainers are included.
It’s a small thing that took an unreasonable amount of work. It’s also, in a way, the whole ethos of the practice in miniature: if the version we can buy in isn’t good enough, we’ll build it ourselves.
Chapter Four · From the chair
Stories, in our patients’ own words.
A smile is hard to describe second-hand. Here are some of the people whose lives changed shape in our practice, telling it themselves.
Chapter Five · The people
The people who built it.
Zain co-founded UrgentCare Dental because he kept seeing the same problem: patients in real pain, unable to get seen anywhere. An emergency clinic was the obvious answer. A dental home was the one that emerged.
Today he leads a team of clinicians across Leeds, Manchester and Bradford, with specialisms in implant dentistry, restorative work, and complex cases. He personally oversees every treatment plan and reviews every piece of clinical content that goes out under our name.
When he isn’t at the chair, he’s usually at a CPD course, a kitchen-table meeting with the team, or the lab, muttering at a tray that isn’t quite right yet.
Hassan co-founded UrgentCare Dental alongside Zain. Where Zain’s instinct is to get someone out of pain, Hassan’s is what comes next: the smile a patient quietly stopped showing in photographs, rebuilt tooth by tooth.
Leeds-trained — he qualified in dentistry at the University of Leeds, a mile from the Armley chair he now works from — Hassan leads our cosmetic dentistry: composite bonding, veneers, smile design, clear aligners. The careful, millimetre work that turns a healthy mouth into one its owner is proud of. Patients who arrived terrified of a dentist’s chair often leave asking what else can be done.
It’s the part of the craft he loves most: the moment someone sees the finished result and recognises themselves again.
· The wider team
And the people around them.
Hand-picked from across the country — each with a specialism, each with a chair of their own, each someone we’d send our own family to.
Meet us
The people you’d meet at our chair.
Hand-picked from across the country. Each with a specialism, each GDC-registered, each someone we’d send our own family to.
Dr. Hassan Basharat
Co-Founder & Lead Cosmetic Dentist
GDC 303029
Dr. Parasto Farshchi
Cosmetic Dentist & Facial Aesthetician
GDC 290074
Dr. Anoop Kizaekka
Oral Surgery
GDC 256203
Dr. Mohammed Fahhr Hussain
Oral Surgery & Endodontics
GDC 264491
Dr. Shahee Ahmed
Oral Surgery & Paediatric Dentistry
GDC 302533
Dr. Rafaela Fernandes Zancan
Special Interest in Endodontics
GDC 314744Chapter Six · Quietly growing
Where we’re opening next.
We built the flagship in Leeds. Manchester followed, and now our Bradford practice has opened its doors on Main Street in Bingley. Not fast. Not loudly. Just steadily, one city at a time.
Leeds (Armley)
Where it all started. The converted Whitehall Estate building where the phones first started ringing, and haven’t really stopped since.
Manchester (North)
Our second clinic, opened shortly after Leeds. Same ethos, same clinicians, same 24/7 phones, same refusal to cut corners.
Bradford (Bingley)
Our newest practice, on Main Street in the heart of Bingley. A full-service clinic with emergency, cosmetic, and restorative under one roof, now serving Bradford and the whole Aire Valley.
By the numbers
A quiet body of work.
24/7
Phones answered · weekends, evenings, bank holidays
4.9
Average rating across 1,143 Google reviews
3
Practices open · Leeds, Manchester, Bradford
Free
Follow-up appointments, on every treatment
If you’ve been putting the dentist off, we’d love to meet you.
First visit, second opinion, or a question you’ve been quietly carrying. No judgement, no hurry, no obligation. Consultations are free and unhurried.