About Us - IV Dental Sedation Training Courses

At Mellow Sedation & TraintoSedate our mission is to take the anxiety out of training and for you to have some fun! To this end, we provide tailored IACSD accredited training courses and supervised mentoring to our colleagues, so that they, too, can offer a pleasant, stress-free experience to their patients.

Having carried out over several thousand sedation treatments as an active group of clinicians we have a deep understanding of the challenges you will encounter and we have seen the difference we can make to our future sedationists careers!

Meet the Team

Dr Rob Endicott

BDS PGCert Med Ed

CEO and Founder of UKsedation.com

Training site TraintoSedate.co.uk

Rob started his Sedation career in 2003 after years suffering with his own dental phobia.

Since introducing sedation to his practice and patients in Eastbourne, he set up the Dental Phobia Clinic in Brighton, within six months filling his diary 4 days a week with IV sedation patients.

He continued his sedation work up at Stratford Dental. He also provided sedation at Cotswold Dental Wellness in Chipping Norton and others.

He has carried out thousands of IV sedations and with Dr Roy Bennett undertakes teaching beginners and updating experienced sedationist’s with new drug Remimazolam / CPD day.

Dr Roy Bennett

BDS FGDent DipDentSci DipFoD Course Director & Sedation Mentor GDC Reg No. 62785

Roy graduated from Liverpool University Dental School in 1987. He is a Fellow of the College General Dentistry & Royal Society Medicine and has a Diploma in Dental Sciences from Liverpool University (2008). Practising privately in primary care since 1995. Senior Clinical Adviser for UKSedation. During his career he has worked part-time in NHS hospital special care dentistry for 15 years.

Roy works closely with a sedation team including consultant and medical anaesthetists, clinical psychologists & therapists offering holistic care to his referral patients. He is committed to the highest standards of clinical care and to the ongoing process of postgraduate education. He has a special interest in the care of anxious patients, utilising inhalation/basic & advanced IV Sedation or hypnotherapy. With his team he has lectured and delivered sedation training and mentoring to dental teams across the UK over the last 15 years. IACSD accredited since 2015 to teach and mentor beginners/refreshers in IV sedation.

He also teaches with Dr Rob Endicott TraintoSedate.co.uk

Dr Mike Winston

BDS MB BChir FDSRCS(Ed) PG Cert TLHP IACSD Accredited Trainer / Supervisor GDC Reg No. 55250

Mike graduated from Birmingham Dental School in 1981 and Cambridge School of Medicine in 1993. He has worked in General Dental Practice, Medicine & Surgery, A+E OMFS and as a Senior Lecturer for the PGDip/MSc Oral Surgery at UCLAN.

Mike has a special interest in anxiety management for dental patients. He Completed training in IV sedation in 1997 at Liverpool University and is an IACSD accredited trainer/supervisor.

Alan Ralfs

Advanced Nurse Practitioner Trainer

Alan has been a nurse in the NHS for over 20 years, working in acute hospitals and community settings.

He currently divides his time between working as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in two busy A&E departments and teaching for Heartbeat Training. This includes providing courses on Dental Medical Emergencies and Life Support.

In addition to these roles, Alan is also a qualified instructor for ALS, ILS, PILS, GIC ( Resuscitation Council UK ) , PLS and APLS courses.

Dr Rahul Sharma

BDS MFDS RCS Ed PG Cert IV Sedation MSc Dental Implantology Sedation Lecturer and Mentor GDC Reg No. 151299

Rahul qualified from Liverpool University in 2008. He completed vocational training in Liverpool before undertaking advanced Oral Surgery training from a number of renowned hospitals post-graduation. During this time he gained his MFDS qualification and Certificate in Conscious Sedation. Currently he works between hospital and private practice.

He has been recognised with a Special Interest in Oral Surgery and Implantology.

More recently, Rahul has qualified with a Master’s Degree in Dental Implantology at the University of Manchester. He uses the Straumann Dental Implant System and keeps up-to-date with new and evidence based techniques both nationally and internationally.