DR.Michael Shang
At Lifetime Smiles St Leonards, we treat people, not teeth. We want everyone under our care to reach their full potential in life without the hindrance of poor oral health or low self-esteem.
We look to improve your overall health and wellbeing through a holistic approach to our dentistry, so you have functional and beautiful looking teeth to improve your confidence, to eat whatever you want, to laugh out loud and to live life to the fullest.
The most important aspect of dental treatment is the planning of treatment to be carried out – we cannot treat what we cannot see or understand. We strive to explain all treatment options in plain language, and make sure you fully understand your options before you choose what is best for your teeth.
As the links between your oral health and general health become clearer, we must identify and target the root cause of any problems that will have long term impacts on your body.
We take into consideration your lifestyle, work and family commitments, financial situation and anxiety levels, and aim for you to have a stable, healthy mouth with beautiful teeth. We seek to become lifetime care providers to our patients and their families by giving them the knowledge and tools to maintain their smiles for life.
Dr Michael Shang, BsD
ABOUT US
Our modern holistic practice aims to help people maintain healthy, good looking teeth for life. To do this we have the following underlying policies:
- Prevention
- Kindness
- Technical Excellence
- Biologically Considerate
- Cosmetic Dentistry
The practice is a general practice (albeit with different underlying principles). General practice to me is a lovely situation. We have a relationship that usually continues for many years. We perform routine dentistry such as fillings and importantly the hygiene and preventive dentistry.
Where my skills are inadequate or a root canal is desired I refer to outside specialists to create the best care for my patients.
The principles I follow mean that many people who first come here have a lot of dentistry in the first year or two after they come here. This is necessary to firstly change from the old paradigm dentistry to the new e.g. amalgam removal. Sometimes this takes years. Then we usually only have to maintain the new work which mostly involves visiting the hygienist and check ups.