Implants, Crowns and Complex Restorative Dentistry in One Practice
Pennant Hills sits at a junction rather than on a line to anywhere in particular, which means residents there are already used to choosing a direction. The patients who choose east and come to us are generally doing it for a specific piece of work rather than a routine check-up. Implant treatment and larger restorative plans are the two that come up most, usually because someone wants the whole sequence handled in one place rather than split between a general practice and a referral.
Dentists at Pymble has been looking after families on the North Shore for more than a century, largely through people recommending us. We work conservatively, which means the first question is whether a tooth can be kept, not what would replace it. Where a tooth genuinely can’t be saved, the replacement conversation happens properly rather than by default.
A plain description of each treatment and what it asks of you. The full list of what we offer is on the dental services page.
None of this is decided in advance of seeing you, so the consultation is where we work out which of it applies.
Worth setting expectations before you commit to the travel, because implant work isn’t measured in appointments.
There’s the assessment and planning, then the placement, then a healing period while the post integrates with the bone, then fitting the replacement tooth on top. Several months is normal. Rehabilitation across multiple teeth adds stages again. Crowns and bridges take less time but still need a second visit for fitting, since the restoration is made off site.
We’ll tell you the number of appointments and the rough timeframe at the planning stage rather than partway through. If bone volume or your general health means implants aren’t the right option, you’ll hear that at the consultation rather than after you’ve started travelling for it. Treatment suitability and results vary between individuals, so the timeline for your case comes out of the assessment.
There are practices closer to Pennant Hills, so a longer trip for a treatment plan needs a reason. The ones patients give are fairly specific.
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A Long Plan Kept Under One Roof
The thing that makes implant work difficult for patients is rarely the treatment, it's the handover between a practice that plans it and a practice that performs it. Here it stays in one place across the whole sequence.
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The Person Who Planned It Sees It Through
If something needs adjusting partway, that conversation happens with someone who already knows the file rather than someone reading it for the first time.
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More Than a Century of Practice
Families who have stayed for decades, and patients arriving on a recommendation, say more than any marketing does.
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A Conservative Starting Point
We'll look at whether a tooth can be kept before discussing replacing it, which matters most when someone has been quoted for extractions elsewhere.
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Second Opinions Treated as Normal
Bring a plan from another practice and you'll get our assessment and the reasoning, including where we agree with the original.
The team page sets out who the clinicians are.
Pain that has escalated, a fractured tooth, a crown or filling that has dropped out, or swelling around the jaw are all reasons to ring rather than sit it out. Call (02) 9488 7555 and we’ll see you as soon as the schedule allows, and reception will tell you honestly what’s available rather than booking you well out and calling it urgent.
If there’s severe facial swelling, bleeding that won’t stop, or an injury involving the jaw or face, don’t make the drive east. Go to a hospital emergency department, and call 000 if it’s serious. Let us know afterwards so we can pick up the follow-up.
Although most Pennant Hills patients arrive for restorative work, the practice takes every age group, from a child’s first examination to older adults who need a longer or slower appointment. Children’s visits cover examinations and preventive care, with the adult teeth monitored as they come through.
The waiting room has a play area and several treatment rooms have televisions mounted overhead. Patients with special needs are accommodated, so mention anything relevant at booking rather than on the day so it can be arranged in advance.
Some patients keep their routine check-ups locally and travel to us only for the restorative work, which is a reasonable arrangement and we won’t push you either way. Others move everything across so it sits in one file. What suits each family member depends on their own circumstances.
The practice is in the Pymble Corporate Centre, on Bridge Street just off the Pacific Highway near the Gordon boundary. By car from Pennant Hills, the usual approach is Pennant Hills Road north-east to where it meets the Pacific Highway at Wahroonga, then south on the highway through Warrawee, Turramurra and into Pymble, turning into Bridge Street. It’s two roads and one junction, so nothing complicated to remember once you’ve done it once.
Pennant Hills Road is the section that determines how long the trip takes. It carries freight alongside commuter traffic for much of the day, and the stretch approaching the Wahroonga junction is where delays usually build. Once you’re on the Pacific Highway heading south it generally moves. Booking mid-morning or after the lunch hour makes a genuine difference to the total drive rather than a marginal one, so if your schedule allows that flexibility it’s worth using.
By train it’s less direct, which is why most patients from that side drive. Pennant Hills is on the T9 Northern Line, so reaching us means travelling to Hornsby, changing platforms onto the T1 North Shore Line, then heading south to Pymble. The station sits on Grandview Street at the lower end of the suburb while Bridge Street is up near the highway, so there’s a walk at this end as well.
Yes. The placement, the healing period and the fitting of the replacement tooth all happen at this practice, which is the main reason patients travel across for it. It also means the clinician who assessed you carries the plan through rather than handing it to someone reading your file for the first time.
Yes, and it’s a reasonable thing to want for treatment at that scale. Bring the plan and any X-rays, or tell reception and we can usually request them so imaging doesn’t need repeating. You’ll get our assessment and the reasoning behind it, including where we agree with the original. What we’d recommend comes out of the examination.
Then we’ll tell you at the consultation and go through what else is available, whether that’s a bridge, a denture, or in some cases keeping a tooth we’d otherwise have replaced. Bone volume and general health are both factors and neither can be judged without assessment and imaging. Better to hear it before the travel than after.
At least two, because the crown is made in a laboratory between appointments and there’s no way around that. We’ll confirm the number at the planning stage. Where other work can be combined into those same visits, we’ll do that rather than adding separate trips for each item.
They can. Most patients who have restorative work done here end up moving their routine care across as well, simply so everything sits in one file and the same people track how the work is holding up, but either arrangement is fine and we won’t push you.
If you’ve been given a plan involving extractions or implants and want another view before committing, bring it along with any X-rays. The assessment will tell you whether it’s the right option at all, and if it isn’t you’ll hear that rather than a sales pitch. Dentists at Pymble sees patients from Pennant Hills and across the Hornsby district. Ring (02) 9488 7555 and aim for a mid-morning slot to miss Pennant Hills Road at its worst.
