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Picture the scene. You have a very important date tonight. You've picked your best knock-em-dead outfit. You pop to the hairdresser's at lunch for a quick cut and blow-dry and on the way back you hop to the shops to pick up your M.A.C lipglass.

You admire yourself in the mirror you start to play out possible introduction scenes, as you do. Just as you say to your reflection, “My Hair? No, I haven't done anything to it,” giggle coyly and flash yourself a smile you notice them. The teeth. They have a tinge. You can move your tongue over them all you like but the remnants of all those lattes is not going anywhere. What to do?

Trying to get a last minute appointment at the dentist is about as easy as getting Johnny Depp to come home with you for an innocent night cap. So you're buggered right?

Not quite. With everyone leading crazy, busy lives a lot of companies are jumping on the we'll-come-to-you bandwagon. Not that we're complaining, taking time out for a hair, dentist's, doctor's appointment can knock out half of your day.

One such company, Toothplace, is trying to make one of these essentials a little bit easier. It doesn't go quite as far as bringing a hygienist into your office to give you a quick clean while you catch up on the minutes from yesterday's board meeting. But they do take away the whole palava of trying to get a dentist's appointment and then taking hours out of your day to attend it.

Toothplace is the new walk-in hygienist service which has opened right in the city of London which in theory means you can literally pop in for half an hour, have a standard clean, extended clean or luxury high gleam diamond polish and then get on with your day.

Sounds simple enough but is it any good? I went along to be the guinea pig and, never to do things by halves, went for the full high gleam diamond polish so I'd come out sparkling.

I was impressed. Firstly the speed of being seen, the essential form filling is minimal. By law a dentist has to make sure your teeth are all okay before you visit a hygienist but at Toothplace they've got this covered.