For New patients, our friendly and caring Blackburn staff will ask you to fill out a Patient Information form. You may be asked to provide your dental history, including your last dental appointment, and the dental works you had, among others. Please do not hesitate to talk to our friendly staff if you have preferences or are experiencing discomfort during a dental appointment. Guaranteed we will do our best to make you feel at home.

Once you have handed in your Patient form, our gentle staff will endorse you to our friendly and skilled Blackburn dentists for your dental check-up.

Your first dental check-up may include:

• Comprehensive dental examination
• Professional cleaning
• Oral cancer screening
• Full mouth photos
• Dental X-ray
• Personalised dental plan

Depending on the result of your first dental check-up, your caring Healthy Smiles dentist will create a personalised dental plan for you. This incorporates your current oral health status and your goal in order to identify the dental treatments you may need.

Here are some of the pertinent records that may be asked of you to submit:

• Patient Information Form
• Dental Insurance Card (if applicable)
• Identification such as Driver’s License,
• Military ID or State ID
• Patient Health History Form
• HIPAA Consent Form
• Patient Authorization Form

Please do not hesitate to talk to oor caring Blackburn team. We will do our best to deliver top-notch dentistry for you and your family in Blackburn, Melbourne.

Worried about the dental pain? There is no need to be. With our safe and effective sleep dentistry options, we can help you get the dental treatment completed with no lingering ill memory about it.

Our sleep dentistry options are for all our patients, regardless of age. Choose among:

• General Anaesthesia – Best for patients with deep phobia and fear and who can not open their mouth at the sleep dentist. As well as younger individuals who need wisdom teeth removed and older individuals who need major work but have limited time and want no memory of the procedure.
• IV Sedation – Best for moderate to mild phobic patients, those with anxiety issues and patients with severe gag reflex. When a patient needs major dental work in single long session.
• Happy Gas – Best for patients who dislike needles as it provides a bit of altered consciousness and reduces mild anti anxiety. It can be used safely for most patients except for ones with terminal disease or respiratory obstruction, severe cold or hay fever.
• Anti Anxiety Medication/Sedation via Inhalation – Best for patients with mild anxiety. It is easy to use, non-threatening and patients are in control with the device in their hand and can moderate how much they need to use.
• Oral sedation – Most common form of antianxiety medication used for majority of patients. Best for patients who have fear of needles.

Please don’t be embarrassed to tell us if you need the assistance of our sleep dentistry methods. It is 100% safe and available for patients of all ages.

Yes! Healthy Smiles is proud to introduce Injex Needleless Local Anaesthesia for our patients in Blackburn, Melbourne.

With Injex, the local anaesthesia and other medication can now be administered without the use of needles. The delivery is through a very short burst of high pressure. The injection takes only a fraction of a second and with virtually no discomfort (it is often compared to being snapped with a rubber band as opposed to the more acute pain of a needle-administered injection).

If you want to explore this option, talk to our friendly staff at Healthy Smiles today!

Healthy Smiles offers a variety of tooth replacement options to serve different missing teeth cases in Blackburn. Choose among:

• Conventional dental implants – This type of dental implants may take 3 – 6 months as the titanium post is allowed to fuse with the bone first before the rest of the equipment is added. In doing so, the foundation of conventional dental implants is strong and lasts longest!
• All-on-4 Implants – Less implants, more teeth! Perfect for patients who need a complete mouth rehabilitation, All-on-4 Implants can replace a complete arch, or two arches! This cost-effective tooth replacement option needs only four dental implants to support a number of teeth.

  Getting your perfect smile back with All-on-4 Implants at Healthy Smiles only takes one dental appointment. You’ll be in and out of the dental clinic in no time!

• Immediate dental implants – Also known as “immediate loading”, immediate dental implants is a quick dental implant procedure that lets your reap the benefits as quickly as an hour.

  If you have missing teeth but don’t have the time to spare for a dental visit, this is your best option. IImmediate implants are known for cutting the treatment period short without compromising quality.

• Bone Augmentation/Graft For Dental Implant – If in the unfortunate event that you have bone atrophy (the wasting away of jawbone because of the lack of stimulation), you can still have a chance to have beautiful and strong pearly whites.

  With Bone Augmentation/Graft, patients with severe cases are treated to a mouth rehabilitation first by replacing the lost bone with bonelike materials. A 3D scan may be taken in order to assess the extent of the damage and identify whether or not you need bone grafting. Once the bone grafting is done, you may need to wait a couple of months for the grafted bone to fuse with your existing jawbone.

• Dentures – Removable dental prosthetics that offer a cheaper solution to missing teeth. Healthy Smiles customises dentures to your measurements for optimum performance.
• Dental Bridges and crowns – The single most important benefit of a bridge is the ability to replace a missing tooth or teeth in minimal time as a fixed option in the mouth.

If you want to know more about our teeth replacement options, please do not hesitate to give us a call.

Perfect for patients who are in the process of losing many, if not most, of their teeth – or who have already undergone the process, the All-on-4 Implants mantra is Less Implants, More Teeth!

All-on-4 implants are small, screw-shaped posts designed to replace the root of missing teeth, particularly the part housed in the bone underneath the gum. These are usually made of titanium, a metal with a unique property of being able to fuse with the surrounding bone (i.e., osseo-integration), thus, its sturdy quality.

All-on-4 Dental Implants look, feel, and function just like real teeth and can support a full arch, either the upper jaw or lower jaw, of non-removable replacement teeth – and all in a single day!

These clear, nearly invisible aligners gently straighten teeth with results already seen as quickly as six weeks! Invisalign aligners are custom-fitted removable trays and are popular among adults and self-conscious teens.

It has no food restrictions because you can remove it when you eat, and you can still participate in your favorite contact sports without fearing damage to them. To see the best results, Invisalign should be worn at least 20 hours a day.

The beauty of this dental procedure is by combining the cosmetic procedures you need, you can save time and the dental treatments will work harmoniously giving you your perfect smile to match your perfect day.

Below are some of the popular cosmetic dentistry procedures in a Wedding Smile Makeover:

• Teeth Whitening
• Porcelain Veneers
• Composite veneers
• Porcelain Crowns
• Dental Implants
• Porcelain Fillings
• Invisalign
• Gum contouring

Talk to us today to discuss your Wedding Smile Makeover timeline! FREE Initial consultation with photographs!

Best used with our Wedding Smile Makeover, the Digital Smile Design allows the patient to see how her pearly whites would look even before getting them. This helps you decide better and have total control over how you want your smile to look.

The advanced technology of digital smile design allows us to recognize problems with your teeth such as misalignment, fracture, tooth root exposure, etc. for your healthy smile. Then for your stunning smile, lip position, facial proportions, aging factors are taken into account to “plan” your smile comprehensively. Most importantly, the software allows us to perform the smile makeover simulation so you can determine the look before the actual dental procedure.

Healthy Smiles is continuously finding ways to make your dental treatments more accessible to you! If your teeth’s shade no longer matches your glow, teeth whitening may do the trick!

Choose among:

• Zoom Teeth Whitening – Whiten your teeth as quickly as 45 minutes with Zoom Whitening. For only $495, you get whiter and beautiful looking teeth immediately.
• In Chair Teeth Whitening – In-chair teeth whitening provides a professional whitening solution that’s quick, safe and efficient. The procedure first begins with your dentist cleaning your teeth, removing any stains and debris and then whitening your teeth using a special gel and curing light.
  In-chair whitening treatments usually work last longer than take-home kits and allow you to walk out of the clinic with a whiter, brighter smile within the hour.
• Take-home Teeth Whitening – Don’t have the time to spend on the dental chair? No worries, we can still help you achieve your shine! With Take-home teeth whitening, you can whiten your teeth in the comfort of your home, in the luxury of your time.

  Your cosmetic dentist at Healthy Smiles customises the whitening kits for optimum performance. The whitening tray can be comfortably worn with ease for a specified time of usually two to four weeks, at the end of which you’ll have a brighter shade of white teeth.