Minimal Waiting Times
Secure prompt & timely care with minimal waiting times within 5 weeks at our Neutral Bay & Newcastle clinics. This means a gum or implant concern can be assessed without a long wait.
Specialist Periodontists
Patient-Focused Care
We explain each step before it happens and plan your treatment around your comfort and wellbeing.
A Precision-Focused Approach
We plan each case in detail and explain what the treatment involves, what it can achieve for you and what it cannot.
Modern Equipment
We use digital imaging, including 3D scans where they are needed, and microsurgical techniques for diagnosis and treatment planning.
Maintenance & Recalls
Following active periodontal and implant therapy, it is important that your dental status and condition are maintained and monitored as required. During this time maintenance therapy and additional treatments may be required.
The frequency, duration and type of maintenance required depends on the severity of each patient’s oral health history and treatment received.
Maintenance & Recalls is a fundamental concept. If you purchase a Lamborghini, you are no going to neglect on its service; and so shouldn’t you with your periodontal care.
MAINTENANCE & RECALL MAY INCLUDE
- An update of your medical and dental history.
- Examination of the cheeks, lips, gums and throat.
- Tooth, gum and bone examination (periodontal probing around the teeth).
- Review of home care routines.
- Scaling, Root planing and air-polishing of the teeth and implants as needed.
- Gum and pocket irrigation with medicine, as needed.
- X-ray review.
Gum surgery, grafting and dental implant treatment are surgical procedures and carry risks, such as infection, swelling, bleeding, gum shrinkage, nerve injury or an implant not fusing with the bone, and they are not suitable for everyone. Results vary from person to person. We explain the alternatives, including non-surgical gum treatment, a bridge or a denture, and you are welcome to get a second opinion.
OUTCOMES
Good oral hygiene practices and periodontal cleanings are essential in maintaining dental health and keeping periodontal disease under control and tissues around dental implants healthy.
Periodontitis and peri-implantitis are controllable but not curable. The periodontal maintenance is the most important procedure that you can do to keep the disease under control. Usually at the completion of an active therapy, a 3 month recall schedule is selected because the bacteria build up and double every day. By the end of the third month they are attacking the bone.
Nevertheless, with individualised and holistic concept in mind; the frequency of the recall may vary between 2-6 months based upon your each visit’s clinical (and may be radiographic) presentation.
We explain each option and what it involves, so you can decide on the care that suits you.
Specialist Clinical Expertise BASED ON
RESEARCH & CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
Smile Specialists Suite is led by Professor Alex Quaranta and Dr Lizzy Hui. Professor Quaranta is a registered specialist periodontist and a Clinical Professor at the University of Sydney School of Dentistry. Over the years, he has developed an extensive expertise and leadership in clinical research.
Together with his Clinical Research Team, he has shown, through his published research, how important is the periodontal and peri-implant maintenance and home oral hygiene for a long-term stability of comfortable, functional and healthy teeth and dental implants.
Find Us
You can find specialist periodontal treatment in Neutral Bay or Newcastle.
- NEWCASTLE
Suite 1, Level 2, 55-57 Hunter Street
Newcastle NSW 2300 - (02) 4009 1428
- admin.newcastle@smilespecialistssuite.com.au
- NEUTRAL BAY
Suite 206, 40 Yeo Street
Neutral Bay NSW 2089 - (02) 9908 5588
- admin.neutralbay@smilespecialistssuite.com.au
Talk to Prof. Quaranta
To explore your options and discover how our team can help transform your smile, schedule a consultation with Professor Alex Quaranta. Your journey to a brighter, more radiant smile starts here. Contact us today to begin the conversation.