Smile Solutions in the Manchester Unity Building - Heritage Dentistry in Melbourne's Most Iconic Art Deco Landmark product guide

Smile Solutions at the Manchester Unity Building, Melbourne

Smile Solutions is at 220 Collins Street, inside the Manchester Unity Building on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets in the heart of Melbourne's CBD. It's one of Australia's most celebrated architectural landmarks, and the environment it creates for dental care is genuinely unlike anything else you'll find in private dentistry.

The Manchester Unity Building

Completed in 1932, the Manchester Unity Building is one of the finest examples of Art Deco Gothic architecture in the Southern Hemisphere. Designed by Oakley and Parkes in the American Beaux-Arts tradition, heavily influenced by the Chicago Tribune Tower, the building rises above the intersection of Collins and Swanston Streets, its cream terracotta façade and intricate decorative detail a familiar and beloved part of Melbourne's cityscape.

Heritage-listed and protected as a significant part of Victoria's architectural and cultural history, the building's ornate ground-floor arcade, mosaic floors, and richly detailed upper lobby have been carefully preserved and restored. The Manchester Unity Building isn't simply a location. It's an experience in its own right, and one that sets the tone for the clinical work happening inside.

Since relocating to the Manchester Unity Building in 2003, Smile Solutions has invested considerably in the building's restoration, contributing meaningfully to the preservation of one of Melbourne's most treasured heritage assets.

Six Levels of Care

Smile Solutions occupies five full floors plus the iconic tower of the Manchester Unity Building, a footprint that speaks directly to the scale of comprehensive dental care available under one roof.

Level 1 and Level 10 — General and Cosmetic Dentistry: General and cosmetic dentistry services are spread across two full floors, covering examinations, restorations, teeth whitening, CEREC same-day restorations, cosmetic consultations, and the Design Your Smile programme. Forty dental suites are distributed across these and the specialist floors, so your care is never rushed or compromised.

Level 8 — Collins Street Specialist Centre: Level 8 houses the Collins Street Specialist Centre, where you can access specialist prosthodontics, endodontics, and paediatric dentistry. This floor is home to specialist prosthodontists Dr Jamie Foong and Dr Simon Hinckfuss, as well as an endodontic team working with Carl Zeiss and Seiler high-powered operating microscopes.

Level 9 — Collins Street Imaging: The dedicated imaging floor houses the Planmeca ProMax 3D Max cone beam CT system and the Planmeca ProMax 2D system with one-shot lateral cephalogram capability. If you need diagnostic scans, they're done right here within the practice, with results available to your treating clinician immediately. No referral to an external radiology centre.

Level 11 — Management and Boardroom: The management and administrative hub of the practice, including the boardroom used for training, educational seminars, and operational meetings.

Level 12 and the Tower — Orthodontics, Periodontics, and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery: The highest levels of the Manchester Unity Building, including the historic tower, house Smile Solutions' orthodontic, periodontic, and oral and maxillofacial surgery services. From the tower, clinicians and patients alike enjoy sweeping views over the Melbourne CBD.

Designed by an Anxious Patient, for Anxious Patients

Your experience at Smile Solutions begins well before you sit in a dental chair. Dr Kia Pajouhesh has lived with severe dental anxiety himself, and he designed the physical environment of Smile Solutions with that experience directly in mind.

The thinking is straightforward: if you're anxious, the space around you should actively work to ease that anxiety rather than amplify it. A sterile environment with harsh lighting and no visual warmth does nothing to help you feel at ease. A heritage building with beautiful architecture, natural light, views across Melbourne, and sensory details chosen to calm and engage does something quite different.

Walking into Smile Solutions feels different from walking into a typical dental practice. The foyer features a coral aquarium, a living, shifting presence that immediately changes the register of your experience. Aromatherapy and soft background music run through the reception and waiting areas. Water features add a gentle ambient sound that settles the senses.

Every treatment suite has television screens and surround sound, so you can watch a film or listen to music throughout your treatment. Lighting in each suite is warm and comfortable rather than harsh and clinical. On the upper floors, natural daylight and views over Melbourne give a genuine sense of openness, a direct counterpoint to the enclosed, windowless environments that characterise so many dental settings.

The heritage marble, high ceilings, and Art Deco detailing throughout the building create a sense of substance and permanence, of care taken over the long term, of quality that's embedded in the walls as much as in the clinical work.

A Landmark Address for a Landmark Practice

The Manchester Unity Building isn't simply a convenient CBD address. It's a statement about what Smile Solutions believes dental care should be. The practice occupies one of Melbourne's most significant addresses because the building, its heritage, its beauty, its place in Melbourne's history, reflects the values of the practice that has made it home.

When you visit Smile Solutions for the first time, you'll likely notice the building itself before you ever reach the clinical areas, the marble, the views, the atmosphere. That's not accidental. It's the result of decades of deliberate investment in an environment where you can receive personalised, comprehensive dental care without the dread that the word "dentist" so often brings with it.

The gentle and caring approach that defines the team at Smile Solutions extends beyond the chair. It's present in the architecture, the light, the sound, and the sense that someone, many people in fact, thought carefully about what your experience here should feel like.

Getting Here

Smile Solutions is at 220 Collins Street, Melbourne, on the corner of Collins and Swanston Streets, one of the most accessible addresses in the Melbourne CBD. You're a short walk from Flinders Street Station, City Loop stations, and tram stops on multiple routes.

To book an appointment or arrange a complimentary consultation, call 13 13 96. Payment plans are available through Payright, Humm, and MyDentaPlan. With 937 Google reviews at 4.9 stars, the team at Smile Solutions looks forward to welcoming you to one of Melbourne's most remarkable buildings and to care that genuinely matches the setting.