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Something to smile about

HAPPY Smiles Tenterfield is a locally owned and operated dental practice. They base their long-standing track record on friendly patient-dentist relationship, excellent customer service and personalised patient care.
The dental team includes highly trained and skilled professionals who are Australian licensed and certified.
These include Dr Harshwardhan Narde who graduated in dentistry from Bangalore, India, six years ago.
“Harsh”, as all his friends call him, has worked with other allied senior professionals and owned his own private practice for four years. He received his Australian Dental Council qualification in 2013 and now calls Tenterfield home.
Dr Ajay Coutinho is a registered general dentist with 18 years of experience and a special interest in root canal therapy. He initially completed his Masters in Dentistry in Manipal, India, in 2001.
He has lectured dental students in Mumbai university, and practised as a dental specialist in Dubai for a number of years.
Over the last 11 years, he has practiced in Australia, both in the public and private systems, and has gained a Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of Dental Surgeons. Dr Ajay Coutinho is also in his final year of gaining accreditation from King’s College London.
Dr Phillida Noronha has completed post-graduate training in periodontics (gum-related ailments) in 2001, in India. She has also worked as a specialist periodontist in Dubai, before migrating to Australia. Dr Phillida has passed her Australian Dental Council exam in 2008 and is a registered general dentist with special interest in periodontics and preventive dentistry.
Rob Lennon has been a denture technician and prosthetist for 13 years.
His special interest is in full and partial dentures, including metal dentures and implant retained dentures.
Graduating from RMIT university in Melbourne, Rob ran his own successful prosthetic and orthodontic laboratory and denture clinic in Melbourne for six years before moving to northern NSW.
Happy Smiles Tenterfield is a preferred provider for most leading health insurers.
Happy Smiles Tenterfield is at 119 Douglas Street, Tenterfield. Phone (02) 6736 3300.

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