Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2008 | Page 88

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Gleaming success for
St James’s Clinic

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It was Rebecca Gautier’s
dream to create a medical
centre of excellence, based
around her husband’s cosmetic
dental practice. The St James’s
Clinic is approaching its first
anniversary, and everything
seems to be going to plan.
“It’s my baby. I dreamed it
up, and we designed it,” says
Rebecca, indicating the clean
whiter than white consulting
rooms, augmented with glass
and chrome.
Dr Gautier’s reputation as
a cosmetic dentist enabled
the couple to attract the
most skilled practitioners to
complement his own work. Dr
Michael Cadier, consultant
plastic surgeon works on faces,
breasts, indeed any part its
owner feels needs a makeover;
Dr John Makunde, consultant
urologist specialises in erectile
dysfunction and is available
for consultation; and Orchard
Cosmetic Skin Centre’s
Dr Maire Rhatigan is now
based in a gleaming spacious
consulting room there.
“In the next phase of our
project we are planning to
offer Well Man and Well
Woman screening, and
corporate stress management
classes,” says Rebecca. The
practise has consulting room
space for other practitioners,

so the services available are set
to increase.
The dental practice itself has,
within the year, gained 700
patients. Many are drawn to its
cutting-edge techniques, such
as zoom whitening. Equipment
such as the cerec machine
enables crowns to be made
and fitted within an hour and
a half. An oral cancer probe
offers instant reassurance or
early diagnosis. But Rebecca,
an NHS nurse, believes it is
Jacques’s gentle reassuring
manor and attention to detail
in the more day-to-day dental
treatments such as fillings
which gives him the edge.
“He’s got a reputation for
dealing with nervous patients,”
she says. “And if children
– who get free check-ups if
they come with an adult – are
scared, he just lets them get
used to the surgery till they’re
ready.”
Somehow it isn’t surprising
to hear patients are starting
to come from the mainland to
the St James’s Practice. “It’s
the Island’s very own Harley
Street,” says Rebecca.
St James Clinic, Upper St
James St, Newport 822220

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