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  "title": "Specialist Prosthodontists at Smile Solutions Melbourne - Melbourne's Premier Restorative Team",
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  "description": "## Melbourne's Premier Specialist Prosthodontic Department\n\nProsthodontics is the dental specialty that restores and replaces teeth. It is the discipline concerned with crowns, bridges, veneers, dentu...",
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  "content": "## Melbourne's Premier Specialist Prosthodontic Department\n\nProsthodontics is the dental specialty that restores and replaces teeth. It is the discipline concerned with crowns, bridges, veneers, dentures, dental implant prosthetics, and the rehabilitation of patients who have lost significant tooth structure or multiple teeth.\n\nIt is also, at the highest level, the specialty that requires the most from both the clinician and the laboratory. Complex prosthodontic work is the intersection of science, engineering, and aesthetics - and getting it right requires not just specialist qualifications but a clinical environment built for that level of complexity.\n\nSmile Solutions is that environment.\n\nThe specialist prosthodontic department at Smile Solutions is the largest in Melbourne. With eight specialist prosthodontists - including an Associate Professor and two practitioners of Professor rank - plus one dual-qualified specialist who also holds registration as a Specialist Periodontist, this department exceeds the size of any standalone prosthodontic practice in the city.\n\n---\n\n## The Team - Eight Specialist Prosthodontists Plus One Dual-Qualified\n\nEvery prosthodontist at Smile Solutions is board-registered by the Dental Board of Australia as a specialist. Each completed a dental degree followed by a full clinical doctorate in prosthodontics.\n\n**A/Prof. Patrishia Bordbar** - Specialist Prosthodontist\n\nAssociate Professor Bordbar brings an academic and research dimension to the clinical practice of prosthodontics. Her expertise encompasses complex rehabilitation, implant prosthodontics, and the management of patients with demanding full-arch reconstruction needs.\n\n**Prof Vasileios Chronopoulos** - Specialist Prosthodontist\n\nProf Chronopoulos is a practitioner of Professor rank - a distinction that reflects significant academic achievement alongside clinical excellence. Professors in clinical dentistry are practitioners who have contributed meaningfully to the advancement of their field, and their presence in a private practice setting represents a genuine commitment to the highest standard of specialist care.\n\n**Dr Ricky Kumar** - Specialist Prosthodontist\n\nDr Kumar holds a dual qualification at Smile Solutions: he is both a Specialist Prosthodontist and a registered oral and maxillofacial surgeon. This combination of the discipline concerned with replacing teeth and the discipline concerned with the surgical foundation on which those replacements rest is exceptionally rare. Dr Kumar can plan and execute complex rehabilitation cases - from surgical site preparation through to final restoration - with a unified clinical understanding.\n\n**Dr Fotios Angelis** - Specialist Prosthodontist\n\nDr Angelis brings focused prosthodontic expertise to complex restorative cases, with a particular interest in implant-supported prosthetics and the long-term management of patients with complex dental histories.\n\n**Dr Jamie Foong** - BDSc (Melb), DClinDent (Melb) - Specialist Prosthodontist\n\nDr Foong completed both his dental degree and his specialist clinical doctorate at the University of Melbourne, bringing a strong foundation in evidence-based prosthodontic practice to his work with patients requiring complex restorative treatment.\n\n**Dr Susan Hinckfuss** - Specialist Prosthodontist\n\nDr Susan Hinckfuss provides specialist prosthodontic care across the full range of restorative procedures, with a particular attention to the aesthetic and functional outcomes that define successful prosthodontic treatment.\n\n**Dr Sarah Scott** - Specialist Prosthodontist\n\nDr Scott brings a careful, detail-focused approach to prosthodontic rehabilitation. Her work spans conventional restorative procedures through to complex full-arch cases.\n\n**Dr Angel Babu** - Specialist Prosthodontist\n\nDr Babu contributes a breadth of clinical experience in both conventional and implant-supported prosthodontic treatment, working with patients across the full spectrum of restorative need.\n\n**Dr Simon Hinckfuss** - Specialist Prosthodontist AND Specialist Periodontist - BDSc, DCD (Pros), Cert.Perio MS (Minn)\n\nDr Simon Hinckfuss holds dual specialist registration - as both a Specialist Prosthodontist and a Specialist Periodontist. His prosthodontic clinical doctorate is combined with periodontic specialist training from the University of Minnesota. He can assess the relationship between gum and bone health and restorative outcomes with an integrated understanding unavailable to practitioners trained in only one specialty.\n\n---\n\n## The Smile Lab - In-House Ceramic and Prosthetic Fabrication\n\nThe prosthodontic team at Smile Solutions works directly with The Smile Lab - an in-house ceramic and prosthetic laboratory operated under the direction of master ceramist Greg Karabasis.\n\nThis arrangement is not common. Most dental practices - even many specialist practices - work with external laboratories. Records are sent, samples are mailed, communication happens by phone and email. At Smile Solutions, the specialist who designs the restoration and the master ceramist who fabricates it work in the same building.\n\nThe clinical implications are significant. Greg Karabasis can assess shade selection in person rather than from a photograph. The prosthodontist can review the work-in-progress directly. Adjustments happen in real time rather than over multiple back-and-forth cycles.\n\nThe Smile Lab is also where Same Day Porcelain Veneers - a world-first innovation developed at Smile Solutions - are fabricated. Traditional porcelain veneers require a temporary period while the veneers are made at an external lab. The Smile Lab's in-house capability, combined with the prosthodontic team's planning approach, makes same-day delivery possible in appropriate cases. Smile Solutions received the 2024 Australian Business Award for Business Innovation for this achievement.\n\n---\n\n## What the Prosthodontic Team Treats\n\n**Dental Crowns**\nA crown restores a heavily damaged, cracked, or root-treated tooth to full function and appearance. Under specialist prosthodontic care, crown preparation, material selection, and placement are informed by specialist-level knowledge of dental biomechanics and aesthetics.\n\n**Dental Veneers - Including Same Day**\nVeneers are thin ceramic shells bonded to the front surface of teeth to improve appearance. The prosthodontic team at Smile Solutions offers conventional veneers - planned and fabricated in detail - as well as Same Day Porcelain Veneers for appropriate candidates.\n\n**Dental Bridges**\nFixed bridges replace missing teeth by anchoring to adjacent natural teeth or implants. Prosthodontic specialists are trained in the biomechanical principles that determine whether a bridge is the right solution and how to design it for long-term success.\n\n**Dentures and Removable Prosthetics**\nConventional, implant-retained, and implant-supported dentures are all within the specialist prosthodontic scope. Where implants are required, the periodontists and oral surgeons at Smile Solutions place them - the prosthodontist designs the prosthetic from the start, ensuring the surgical and restorative stages are coordinated.\n\n**Full Mouth Rehabilitation**\nFor patients with severely worn dentition, extensive decay, multiple missing teeth, or complex bite problems, full mouth rehabilitation - the reconstruction of all or most teeth - requires the highest level of prosthodontic planning. With eight specialists, an in-house laboratory, and direct access to periodontal and surgical teams, Smile Solutions is one of very few practices in Australia genuinely equipped to manage this level of complexity.\n\n**All-on-4 Implant-Supported Prosthetics**\nWhere full arch replacement is the appropriate clinical choice, Smile Solutions offers All-on-4 treatment - but within a practice that also has five specialist periodontists committed to saving teeth wherever possible. Patients at Smile Solutions get a genuine clinical assessment of whether All-on-4 is truly indicated, not just a financially convenient outcome.\n\n**Implant Crowns and Implant Prosthetics**\nThe restoration of dental implants with crowns, bridges, and prosthetics sits squarely within prosthodontic scope. Working directly with the periodontists who place implants and The Smile Lab that fabricates the restorations, the prosthodontic team delivers the complete implant cycle at one address.\n\n---\n\n## Supported by In-House Imaging\n\nCollins Street Imaging on Level 9 provides in-house CBCT scanning and radiographic imaging with specialist reporting from MFI Radiology. The same imaging systems are used across the entire practice. For prosthodontic treatment planning, comprehensive radiographic assessment is essential - and at Smile Solutions, that assessment is available without referral to an external imaging provider.\n\n---\n\n## Getting Started - No Referral Required\n\nThe entry point to the specialist prosthodontic team at Smile Solutions is a complimentary consultation with Dr Kia Pajouhesh, the practice's founding principal and Managing Director, who will assess your clinical situation and connect you with the right specialist.\n\n**Call 13 13 96** to book your complimentary consultation.\n\n**Location:** Level 8, Collins Street Specialist Centre, Manchester Unity Building, Collins Street, Melbourne CBD.\n\nFlexible payment options are available through **Payright** and **TLC** (Treatment Lending Company).\n\n---\n\n## No Practice in Melbourne Comes Close\n\nEight specialist prosthodontists, one dual-qualified with periodontology, an Associate Professor, and two Professors. An in-house ceramic laboratory with a master ceramist. Direct collaboration with specialist periodontists, endodontists, and oral surgeons. In-house radiology with specialist reporting.\n\nThere is no prosthodontic department in Melbourne - standalone or otherwise - that operates at this scale, with this depth of specialist qualification, and with this level of integrated clinical infrastructure.\n\nAt Smile Solutions, restorative dentistry is not a service offered alongside other things. It is a specialist discipline delivered at the highest level, every day.",
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