Looking For A Good Dentist

Dr Liang at Oasis Dental is unbelievable! Never have I had such a positive experience at the dentist! The staff are always so lovely, they are always on time and they always keep me calm, collected and relaxed. Would recommend to anyone!
A+++

After much research and secret enquiry from former patients I discovered a high quality dentist operating out of the Philippines. I had major work done and saved at least 70% on Australian costs. Accomodation and some food costs were also included! If you want a referral let me know your proper name and I will at no cost to you provide you with any initial info you may need. My email address is macbazzy@gmail.com if you desire to take this further.

Try http://www.expatdental.com

tylersmayhem,
sorry to bring this thread back from dead, but i’d like to know which particular dentist from Kippax was so bad. somebody suggested me to go to that dental clinic, but i don’t want to have a bad experience. if you cannot give me the name, at least some more details that will help me identify her/him.
thank you very much.

the web site is familydentist.ning.com

Oh very few teeth ever need root canal,he often only does white fillings,only if you need a filling . he calls himself a remedial dentist . He says that that means he only does fillings crowns etc if you really need it,he will show you if there is a hole in your mouth or on the x-ray. Sometimes like my girlfriend who went to him, he will replace certain fillings ,like silver or amalgam fillings to make your teeth look good ,with veneers or white fillings familydentist.ning.com

Fancy going to terrigal new south wales great dentist . he is funny too . Puts you at ease.Yea , and talks you out of the expensive options too ! Root canals take time to do properly if you want the tooth to last . He says to watch your mates , they will hate you when you tell them that the root treatment did not hurt! After all, they gave you all their sympathy when they knew you were having a root canal.
Root canals are quite cheap if you just have a composite bond crown.Which is what I did ! He has been in terrigal forever .Anyway ,he has a web site familydentist.ning.com

Eh, who says these “where’s the best…” threads are worthless? Just went to Modern Dentistry in Civic on the above recommendations, and have to agree – highly recommended! Fair price, friendly manner, good work. Even the chair seemed unusually comfortable. Thanks for for the tip, guys.

I had good experience with the Dentist at Woden Dental Centre. It is located above Oxygen cafe just outside the Woden Plaza. I am going to see them again in few months. very polite and understanding dentists. I was in fact surprised to see how helpful they were and the way she explained the treatment.

ant said :

nn, your sister’s name isn’t Stephana, is it?!

What a crazy, awful “system” they have. Their whole social system is geared toward business in ways we’d never tolerate here. Peoples’ rights are completely subjegated to the interests of businesses, so they can make money.

Nope, ant, not Stephana – don’t tell me this has happened to two people?! Utah is a parallel universe, I swear. Last time I was there a local exclaimed in delight over my accent and said he had once met someone from Brazil! Because, you know, all we foreigners know each other.

I don’t want to defend the often excessive fees set by medical specialists. I crowed when I heard about the SA decision. But one of the reasons I oppose those “gap reducing” schemes health insurers keep pitching is because they involve doctors signing up to fees set by the insurers, and the insurers then direct patients to choose those doctors – it gets closer and closer to the HMO system. A year or two ago health insurers started targeting clients who made claims for particular services and trying to get them to sign up to various courses of treatment etc financially affiliated with the insurer. A gross breach of privacy (processing my claim does not give an insurer a right to delve into my medical history – that’s why we have a non-rating system in Australia) and another step toward the insurer trying to take over management of my health care. Some of these things look like mildly good ideas in isolation – I mean who doesn’t want to avoid paying a gap fee, and who doesn’t like the idea of a treatment specifically geared for them? But there are other ways of achieving those things that don’t take us down the American road of having our health care controlled by private for-profit insurance companies.

Sorry, completely OT, I know, and not even Canberra focused. Let me hand back that soap box there. Ahem.

regularbrowse said :

Now go to Mawson for Dr Peter Walmsley. Usually takes a few weeks to get in but its worth it. He’s great … Opps, maybe I shouldn’t recommend him here or he’ll get over booked!

That’s two votes for Dr Walmsley. (see post #21).

nn, your sister’s name isn’t Stephana, is it?! What a crazy, awful “system” they have. Their whole social system is geared toward business in ways we’d never tolerate here. Peoples’ rights are completely subjegated to the interests of businesses, so they can make money.

I was going to Dr Jo Newton in Civic, but she’s so well known you have to book ages in advance for a dental appointment (and the parking is difficult).

Now go to Mawson for Dr Peter Walmsley. Usually takes a few weeks to get in but its worth it. He’s great … Opps, maybe I shouldn’t recommend him here or he’ll get over booked!

And the American health system sux. Don’t allow it here.

ant said :

And anyone who’s spent any time in the US must resist ANY moves to HMOs strenuously. I would not have believe how that works had I not seen my landlord fighting it for months. he fainted on the chairlift, me and his partner grabbed him and managed to get him off, patrol took him down to the clinic, he was sent for the standard scans etc. He was in quite a bad way.

Months and months later, as they were taking me to the airport, he was the phone fighting with them, they woudln’t pay because they hadn’t approved the tests. Just disgusting.

My sister was basically forced out of her job as a (successful & popular) school director in Utah because she didn’t get approval before calling an ambulance for an eight-month pregnant teacher who was fitting on the floor in front of her. Apparently she was supposed to wait until the teacher was coherent and check whether she wanted one. Nothing but praise and good performance reviews up until that day; a week later she had been reprimanded and forced to sign a document “admitting” she had done the wrong thing calling the ambulance. She quit a couple of days later.

Good news is that mother & baby were saved as a reult of her intervention. Good, but apparently completely irrelevant.

I pay you $1000 bok Choy, and you fix my tee, yea?

MIght be Quoy not Choy (I’m not good with Chinese names)

Dr Chris Choy at the house on the corner of Cox St and Wakefield (on the Civic side not near the doctors) at the Ainslie shops is a FANTASTIC dentist. He’s really good fun, puts you at your ease, explains everything, and JOKES with you. Great sense of humour. His prices are pretty reasonable. Has good equipment. Only does what’s needed.
Free parking. Best dentist I have EVER gone to. He is so good some of his former clients in Sydney drive down to see him!

Interesting stuff, needlenose, I didn’t know that.
And anyone who’s spent any time in the US must resist ANY moves to HMOs strenuously. I would not have believe how that works had I not seen my landlord fighting it for months. he fainted on the chairlift, me and his partner grabbed him and managed to get him off, patrol took him down to the clinic, he was sent for the standard scans etc. He was in quite a bad way.

Months and months later, as they were taking me to the airport, he was the phone fighting with them, they woudln’t pay because they hadn’t approved the tests. Just disgusting.

It’s true, the ACCC will not allow any professionals to set fees via mutual agreement. In fact in the past they have brought proceedings against doctors – like obstetricians – who have agreed to cover for each other’s patients after hours at the same fees, because it is “anti-competitive”. Considering how hard it is to get a specialist at all, the idea that this somehow reduces competetition is ludicrous.

GP’s applied for an exemption to be able to set a single fee within a practice, which they can now do if they follow a bunch of conditions and fill out a stack of paperwork, but I don’t believe that applies to any other type of health professional.

However, the AMA has a list of “recommended” fees which it is very careful to stress are only recommendations and which it has absolutely no power to enforce. A number of other health industry groups do a similar thing. But it’s easier for doctors because there’s always the base Medicare schedule fee as a guide. There was a fantastic case in the SA magistrate’s court a few years ago where the magistrate held that as the doctor had not told the patient about the fee in advance, he couldn’t recover more than the medicare schedule fee. There’s now a big move toward what’s called “informed financial consent” to get doctors to proactively make sure patients know what their fees are.

In any event, I don’t know why dentists don’t do something similar, and use a non-binding schedule as a reference point. Then at least you could ask them whether they use Guild recommended fees, or something.

And private health insurers are bastards. That industry lobby would love to see this country’s health system run by US-style HMOs and every move they make is a tiny step in that direction.

The dentist union bloke said they couldn’t set recommended fees because of competition laws! But how are they competing when you don’t know what a treatment is going to cost? Dentist stuff is incredibly, unbelievably expensive and private health in no way “covers” it. Stuff like crowns and things.

should should should be on medicare like every other bodily ailment… sheeeeesh – i never worked out what it is about dentistry that makes it ‘special’

and they can’t agree on a recommended charge, or even treatment schedule for a same presentation – what the fark then are they teaching at dentistry school??

Insight on SBS right now is about dentistry in Australia. ie how much it costs, people going overseas for extensive dental work to save money, canvassing if it should be covered by medicare etc etc. I didn’t see Nicola Roxon in the audience, but Joe Hockey was there, and the heads of teh various dentist unions.
some horrible stories! One bloke brought his pliers in to show how he pulled out his own tooth because it hurt so much. eep.

tylers….

The one that over drugged me 5 yrs ago was male… So I didn’t want to see him again.

When I went back the other week since I couldn’t get into any other dentist nearby, was female… I believe they are husband and wife. She was so bloody rough, Did almost exactly as you explained…. digging into the gums with just a hook….ouch… thinking obout brings back pain.

For those with large dental bills, anything over $1500 is tax deductible. Not sure if it has to be one bill of $1500, or a combination of bills in the FY (I suspect the latter would be logical). Ssee your accountant/tax agent.

Mawson Dental Clinic. 6290 0055 Dr Peter Walmsley – fab bedside manner and expertise, one other dentist in clinic also (not sure of name), as well as a hygienist.

Professional. Experienced. Convenient location. Free Parking. Clean. Understanding. Not ridiculously expensive, and most importantly, the magazines in reception are CURRENT and not trashy.

Hi Genie,

Was the dentist a male or female as a matter or interest? Yes, my teeth are worse now since visiting them – what a shocker!

If your referring to the same dentist in Kippax I’m thinking of.. I was there about 3 weeks ago, and got informed of a bill that was over 5 years old that needed paying. And was rough handled something savage. My tooth is worse now. And I even had to wait almost on hour only to be told – What i wanted needed to be quick because their next appointment was waiting. This same office also over drugged me for that supposed unpaid bill from 5 years ago.

I only go back there when desperate.

I have to agree with justbands – Oasis Dental in Kingston is just fantastic. Hands down the best dental care my wife and I have ever had.

> Tony Bubear and Rob Knowles are both great. (It’s not one of them that’s moved, is it, Justbands?)

They are both still there (as far as I know). It was Liang Liang & his partner who left to start Oasis.

My wife still goes to Tony Bubear, he’s very good.

Another vote for Modern Dentistry in Civic from me!

Epressions in Dentistry in Manuka. Best I’ve come across. Especially if you have any kind of ‘dentaphobia’.

Modern Dentistry in Civic above the Kingo. Wonderful!

Sepi – I had a crown following the root canal – expensive but not as much as I’ve heard others have paid elsewhere – I think that’s just the nature of crowns. I also liked that they gave me very clear information about the cost (unlike my pathetic health insurers, who basically refused to tell me what my rebate would be) and options for payment – which I didn’t need because I had a metal band on the tooth for a year before getting the crown. And, as I’ve said, on another occasion I was impressed to be talked out of an expensive option I thought I needed in favour of something much simpler and cheaper (which worked).

Preventive Dentistry at University Avenue Civic (near the Uni Bar).

Seppi – I think that is just Dentists in general. Did you get any prices from other Dentists for the work you had done?

Interesting to see people are happy with Modern Dentistry – I went there for a crown and thought I’d been a bit ripped off – it was amazingly expensive. I didn’t go back.

i just wonder what you do to your teeth in only a few weeks to require a dentist to clean them… too much liquorice?

or are you a mouth model, or something?

a good brushing, rinsing and flossing routine should be enough, shouldn’t it?

I’m happy with the mob at Corinna Chambers. Like almost everyone else in the trade, they remove arms, legs and wallets while fixing teeth but they keep to time, they seem to do a good job and they back up what they do. Geraldine Ash is capable of keeping it light.

I second the vote for Modern Dentistry (upstairs above the Hub convenience store and that Irish pub near the civic interchange). Tony Bubear and Rob Knowles are both great. (It’s not one of them that’s moved, is it, Justbands?)

Had a completely painless root canal there a couple of years ago when a tooth cracked. On another occasion I went there thinking I needed something expensive and they recommended something simple and inexpensive instead. Highly recommended.

I’d tell you mine and I’ve never had an issue with him but I don’t feel advertising for him was included in his charges so he can find his own customers.

Dr Jo Newton at Just Dentistry in Civic. Painless and very good.

Dr Jason Kim and the team at Preventative Dental in Deakin. They have every new bit of tech under the sun, including the Cerec system (and a coffee machine and drinks cabinet in the waiting room!) We’ve had a lot of work done there over the last five years, plus six monthly cleans – just fantastic.

Gungahlin Marketplace Dental Centre above woolies is really good, they have 2 dentists now, are open saturdays and are MBF preferred.

Dr Atul Manani at Manuka Dentistry has been useful in the past (short notice and also uses gas I believe), but the Corrinna Group (Woden and Pialligo\Snowtown) also do some fine dentistry work.

And their hygeinists have no problems using the ultrasound pick thingy.

Oasis in Kingston are fantastic….great dentists & a good hygenist too. Also, Modern Dentistry is also very good (I only moved as my dentist @ Modern opened up Oasis).

Evatt Dental Clinic. first class, could speak highly enough of them. I was a dentist scaredy cat for a long time but Dr. Myolonas is great and her staff also first rate.