TECOM, Barsha Heights, and where the clinic actually is
The names cause confusion, so plainly: TECOM and Barsha Heights are the same district, renamed but still known by both. The clinic is inside it, at 1 Al Seef Street, Al Thanyah First, on the ground floor of the 24 Hours Coffee building. Dubai Media City and Dubai Internet City sit immediately alongside, which is why the drive is measured in minutes.
The working-hours emergency
Media City and Internet City are full of people who cannot leave a desk in the middle of the afternoon, and dental pain is very good at arriving on a day with three meetings in it. Because the clinic runs on appointments made by phone rather than a waiting room, an emergency visit here can be a genuine hour rather than half a day.
And when the pain waits until you are home and then gets worse at midnight, which is the usual pattern, the same number works. There is no different out-of-hours line and no answering service in between.
What is dealt with
Toothache that has stopped responding to painkillers
Usually the nerve. An X-ray, then a dressing or the first stage of a root canal, the same visit. Emergency root canals.
A tooth broken at lunch
Smoothed, sealed and rebuilt so it stops catching. Broken teeth.
Swelling in the face or gum
Drained the same day or night. This is the one that must not wait. Abscesses.
A wisdom tooth flare
Cleaned, irrigated and settled, with any extraction planned properly for later. Wisdom teeth.
How to use it
Call the number, describe what is happening, and you will be given a time. Dr. Sarhan takes the calls himself, so you get a decision in the first two minutes rather than a message taken and a callback promised. English and Arabic.
Prices are published in advance and do not change with the hour of the day.