Find The Right Surface Finishes For Your Practice
Designing a waiting room is more than what you think looks good. Aesthetics, functionality and practicality all play major roles in deciding what goes into your new waiting room. A dental practice’s waiting office serves very specific functions, and these can be overlooked if you don’t have the correct mindset. Some of these functions include […]
Handling Kids in the Dental Chair
Dealing with younger patients involves a certain degree of finesse, as well as a unique personality that children can warm to. This, more than your medical techniques, is what can make or break a child’s experience in a dentist’s office. Most of these traits are common sense – be conversational (to their level), be happy […]
Top 5 Design Current Trends for Surgery Waiting Rooms
Long gone are the days of whitewashed walls and cold tiled floors – surgery waiting rooms are taking a deliberate step away from the antiseptic-scented, fluorescently-lit clinical space to embrace a warm and welcoming environment. By creating a waiting room that is less ‘sterile-office’ and more reflective of a hotel room or home, you can […]
Cove Dental 10 Minutes From Home
Cove Dental is the brand new practice of Dr. John Hills and his wife, Bomi, in the Sydney suburb of Lane Cove, 10 kilometres from the CBD across the Harbour Bridge. The University of Sydney graduate had been looking to establish his first practice for a number of years and has finally made the move. […]
Kearns Dental – A Perfect First Practice
A decade after graduating from Sydney University with Honours, Dr Harshi Dissanayake made the decision to transition from employed dentist to practice owner. Having spent much of her career working in Sydney’s south-west, the suburb of Kearns, 57 km from the CBD, was chosen as the ideal location. “Ten years out, it was time to […]
New Paediatric Practice for Sydney’s Upper North Shore
Specialist Paediatric Dentist, Prashanth Dhanpal, journeyed half way ‘round the world before finding a home in Sydney’s northern suburbs. Dr Dhanpal trained at undergraduate level in India and then completed his Masters and Advanced Diploma in Paediatric Dentistry in Hong Kong. Arriving in Sydney in 2010, he is one of a very few specialist Paediatric […]
Clinic Layout Ideas for Patients, Staff & Healthcare Spaces That Work
A high-end finish on your reception desk is the pièce de résistance come opening day, but clinic layout is so much more than appearances. The right layout will improve staff efficiency and patient flow, deliver comfort and privacy and seamless daily operations. Whether you’re designing a specialist clinic or an expansive medical centre, Perfect Practice […]
Avalon Beach Family Dental
Sydney’s Northern Peninsula starts at Manly and ends at Palm Beach and hosts some of Australia’s best-known swimming beaches and surf breaks. Avalon is one of those and Avalon Beach Family Dental is Dr Astrid Kylstra’s fun, vibrant new practice located some 40km from the Sydney CBD. Twenty years after graduating dentistry at UQ, Dr […]
Mid-Century Cottage Makeover
In a resto-renovation that would rival the reality TV show “The Block”, a simple weatherboard cottage has been completely renovated for its new life as “time warp” orthodontic practice. Dr Nerissa Green, who operates Charlestown Orthodontics, had to negotiate a raft of planning approval hurdles aimed at retaining the “residential façade” and character of the […]
Hugh Fleming Dentistry Secures a New Home in Mosman
Hugh Fleming Dentistry is a state-of-the-art dental practice on Sydney’s lower north shore established by Dr Fleming over two decades ago. The practice embraces CAD/CAM and 3D x-ray technology to deliver best practice patient care. While much had been accomplished in the history of the private practice by Dr Fleming, the goal of owning his […]