Rockingham Dental Centre
WHY CHOOSE ROCKINGHAM DENTAL?
Your teeth are precious – with the help of your dentist you can keep strong healthy good-looking teeth for a very long time, possibly for the whole of your life. That alone will make a big difference to the quality of your life – how you feel about yourself, and how others see you.
Rockingham Dental is your dental care centre for the Rockingham area, including Baldivis, Safety Bay, Kwinana and Warnboro. At Rockingham Dental we’re totally committed to your oral health. We want to see our patients enjoying the benefits of teeth that are both healthy, and look good. That’s why we offer family-friendly dental care – our way of saying we want to build a long-term relationship with you, where we concentrate on giving you and your family quality preventative dentistry.
The aim of preventive dentistry is to minimise the amount of major restorative and cosmetic work necessary to keep your teeth in good shape. By keeping up your regular visits to Rockingham Dental Centre, you and your dentist will work together to make sure that you achieve the very best possible outcomes for your oral health and well-being.
FAMILY-FRIENDLY DENTAL CARE
At Rockingham Dental Centre we pride ourselves on being a family-friendly practice – it’s perhaps a point of difference between us and some other practices you may have come across. Our aim is to be the Rockingham dental clinic that provides you with high-quality preventative dentistry within a gentle, caring and compassionate environment.
The emphasis is very much on ‘whole of family’ care. We love to see your children here, helping them to develop good oral health techniques early in life, and providing them with quality dentistry to meet their changing needs through their teenage years and into adulthood.
By developing long-term relationships with you and your family, and staying in regular contact, we can help to keep teeth in top condition at all times, avoiding expensive and unexpected restorative treatment. Above all, we believe in acting with ethics and integrity. We won’t try to sell you expensive dentistry that you don’t need, but we will help you keep your family’s teeth healthy in the best possible way.
That’s what we mean by ‘family-friendly’.
CLOSING THE GAP – HEALTH FUND ADVICE
Is your Health Fund being fair with your teeth?
At Rockingham Dental Centre we’ve noticed that the ‘Gap’, the difference between what your health insurer rebates you and what your dental treatment actually costs, has been increasing recently. Your health fund has been happily putting up your premium, but they haven’t been increasing your rebate at anything like the same rate.
Why? The Australian Dental Association has been studying this for some time. There’s no doubt that some health funds are using the Ancillary, or General part of the premium to increase their profits, at the expense of your dental cover.
So, what can you do about it? Certainly, review your cover carefully, and make sure that you’re covered for what you think you’re covered for. Watch out for high pressure ‘Join now, claim now’ advertising – you won’t have a chance to read the small print before you sign up, unless you specifically ask to see the Standard Information Statement (SIS).
If you’re not happy with what you see, change your insurer, your cover, or even reconsider whether health insurance is the most cost-effective way of paying for your dental treatment. Those premiums should be helping you keep your teeth healthy, not subsidising inefficient health fund management.
