Dentist near Chirnside Park | 6.5 km to Croydon

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Dental Care for Chirnside Park Residents

Divine Dental Care is a single practice in Croydon, at 59 Wicklow Avenue. Chirnside Park is the largest of the outer suburbs we draw from, with close to 11,800 residents, and the road between us could not be more direct.

Chirnside Park has no railway station. The Lilydale line runs to Mooroolbark and Lilydale on either side of it, which is why most people here drive. Maroondah Highway is the through road, and it passes the shopping centre at 239 to 241 Maroondah Highway before continuing straight to Croydon. We have free on-site parking with no meters or time limits.

The Chirnside Park Shopping Centre has anchored the suburb since 1979 and now runs to well over a hundred stores, so a lot of households are already on Maroondah Highway several times a week. The Heritage Golf and Country Club sits in the north-western corner on the Yarra River, and Kimberley Reserve carries much of the local sport. Appointments here tend to get scheduled around trips people were making anyway.

We are open Monday to Friday 8:30am to 6:00pm and Saturday 8:30am to 5:00pm. Because everything happens in the one Croydon surgery, a check-up and clean that turns into a crown, an implant or a root canal stays with the same team in the same building.

Divine Dental Care clinic near Chirnside Park

What Chirnside Park Patients Ask For

Dental implants, orthodontics and dentures for Chirnside Park patients

Implants, straightening, dentures and help with nerves are four reasons Chirnside Park and Wonga Park patients make the trip. Each of these is handled in our Croydon rooms, about 6.5 km by road from the centre of Chirnside Park.

Dental implants for Chirnside Park residents

An implant is a small titanium post placed in the jawbone to replace the root of a missing tooth. It can carry a single crown, an implant-supported bridge where several teeth in a row are missing, or a denture that needs more stability than gums alone can give.

Planning starts with an examination and 3D imaging, and cone beam CT is in the building, so you are not sent elsewhere for scans. Healing usually takes three to six months before the final crown, bridge or denture is fitted.

Read about dental implants

Braces and clear aligners for Chirnside Park families

Traditional braces suit children, teenagers and adults, and treatment usually runs 12 to 24 months with adjustment visits every four to eight weeks. Clear aligners are removable trays, each set worn for one to two weeks and for 20 to 22 hours a day.

Aligner progress checks are typically every six to eight weeks, which keeps the number of trips down Maroondah Highway modest for a family already juggling school and sport.

Traditional braces · Clear aligners

Full and partial dentures for Chirnside Park patients

Full dentures replace every tooth in an upper or lower arch. Partial dentures fill the gaps when some natural teeth remain, in acrylic or with a thinner cobalt-chrome metal framework.

Dentures are made here at the practice, and if a new set feels loose or sore we can adjust or reline it. Where a lower denture will not stay put, implant-retained dentures are worth asking about.

Read about dentures · Implant-retained dentures

Dental anxiety care for Chirnside Park and Wonga Park patients

For nervous patients we explain each step before it happens, agree a stop signal and book longer appointments where needed. Ceiling-mounted televisions and noise-cancelling headphones are in the surgery.

Where that is not enough, oral sedation taken before the appointment is available. You stay awake and able to respond, and because Chirnside Park has no train station, plan for someone to drive you home, as you cannot drive after a sedative. We do not offer IV sedation.

Sedation and dental anxiety

Why Choose Us

What Matters Most to Chirnside Park Patients

Top-Tier Health Fund Networks

Chirnside Park households on Bupa Members First Platinum, Medibank Members Choice Advantage, HCF More For Teeth or nib First Choice are in our top-tier network, and we are also a preferred provider for CBHS, GMHBA, Australian Unity, Westfund and others. Medibank, HCF and Bupa members with eligible extras cover can have two no-gap check-ups and cleans a year (conditions apply). Claims go through HICAPS at the desk.

QIP Accredited

The practice is accredited under the Quality Innovation Performance (QIP) program, an independent assessment of infection control, patient safety and clinical governance.

Ten Dentists in One Building

With 10 dentists, an oral health therapist and a hygienist, implant planning, braces and denture work can all run through the same Croydon rooms, with the cone beam CT and intraoral scanner on site. Some of our dentists speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese or Korean.

Saturday Appointments

Chirnside Park has a median age of 38, with Chirnside Park Primary School and Oxley Christian College inside its boundary, so many families here are fitting appointments around school runs and weekend football and netball. We see patients Monday to Friday 8:30am to 6:00pm and Saturday 8:30am to 5:00pm.

Bulk Billed Children's Care

Children who qualify for the Medicare Child Dental Benefits Schedule can receive up to $1,158 in benefits over two calendar years, and we bulk bill it, so eligible kids have no out-of-pocket cost for covered treatment.

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