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Dr Maria Gomes has been in general dental practice for the past 15 years, and has extensive experience in both the private and public sectors.

Dr. David Goubrial is a general dentist at Smile Place Dental who works at both the Forrest Hill and Tecoma Practice.

David is also involved with The...

David’s particular interests are impacted third molar (wisdom teeth) surgery and preventative dentistry. He will do whatever it takes to make sure you do not develop any cavities or problems associated with your mouth. David is also a Latrobe University Academic where he demonstrates and teaches senior dental students.

Dr Monica Massiha graduated from La Trobe University and has been working in both private clinics and public/government clinics. Monica works at both Forest Hill and Tecoma clinics and is available for late night appointments. She also supervises and teaches dental...

Dr Monica Massiha performs all areas of general dentistry, including but not limited to:

Dr Jagruti Patel is our passionate dentist who has been working at the practice for the last two years and, as the practice has gotten busier, Jagruti has increased her hours from two to four days a week to provide timely and quality care to patients.

Jagruti is kind, gentle and caring and is committed to providing patients with optimum dental treatment. Jagruti, also known as ‘JP’, to her patients is a valuable asset to the practice, her experience in dentistry and warm approach makes the visit to the dentist a more comfortable experience. When JP isn’t at work caring for all of her patients she enjoys cooking delicious vegetarian meals and spending time with her husband and 3 year old daughter.

Dr Arathy Rao is a principal dentist practicing at Tecoma Dental and Forest Hill Dental. She is an experienced dentist working in in Melbourne, Victoria.

For over 9 years Dr Arathy Rao has been performing complex dental and orthodontic procedures like:

Dr Chitra Rao is a principal dentist practicing at Tecoma Dental and Forest Hill Dental. She is an experienced dentist working in in Melbourne, Victoria.

For over 9 years Dr Chitra Rao has been performing complex dental and orthodontic procedures like:

Nesrine is the founder and principal dentist at Ava Maria Dental. She started her career in dentistry over 9 years ago.
Nesrine has had extensive experience working as an Associate Dentist at a number of private practices in Victoria, before establishing Ava Maria Dental in 2011.
She believes that excellent dentistry provided with compassion could have a long lasting, profound effect on a patient’s life.

Lara graduated from The University of Melbourne in 2010 and has been practising dentistry since. Lara practises with professionalism and compassion at all times and believes in patient-centred care so that the unique needs and values of each patient is always respected.

Lara practices in all aspects of general dentistry and can also provides Invisalign treatment (invisible teeth alignment therapy). In her spare time, Lara enjoys Taekwondo, eating out and watching movies.