Welcome to Wickham Terrace Dental

Brisbane City Dentists

Our experienced team of dental professionals are passionate about helping you achieve the very best oral health.

Using the latest dental technology, our skilled Brisbane city dentists provide high quality general dentistry, restorative treatments, and cosmetic dentistry.

We can provide you with general preventive dentistry, dental veneers, white fillings, Invisalign, teeth whitening, root canal therapy and many other modern dental services.

To replace missing teeth, we offer dental implants, dental crowns and dental bridges, all made with the benefit of our in-house Brisbane CEREC laboratory.

Preventive dentistry to protect your dental health

At Wickham Terrace Dental, we strongly believe in addressing any oral health issues in their early stages, before they become more difficult – and expensive – to treat. In this way, our goal is to provide you and your family with high quality, affordable Brisbane dentistry.

Our experienced dentists, Dr Andrew Teakle and Dr Nicholas Yee, are proud members of the Australian Dental Association.

At Wickham Terrace Dental, our goal is to make your visit to the dentist a welcoming, affordable, and satisfying experience.

Conveniently located in the Brisbane CBD, our practice is tranquil and inviting; the perfect place to unwind and have your every dental requirement catered for. If you’re anxious about your dental treatment, our team’s light touch and compassionate nature will ensure you receive the affordable dental care you require, in a comfortable and relaxing environment.

One Brisbane city dental practice that does it all

Thanks to our commitment to professional development, our dentists are skilled in a broad range of specialist areas, including dental implants, Invisalign braces, porcelain veneers, crowns and bridges, endodontic therapy (root canal treatment), teeth whitening and more.

If you’re looking for caring Brisbane city dentists who can handle ALL aspects of your treatment, speak to the friendly team at Wickham Terrace Dental.

We’re always happy to welcome new patients to our Brisbane city dental practice. Our extended opening hours are designed to make it easy for you to find the time to care for your oral health. And our friendly team share a commitment to giving you the best possible experience.

Our safety and sterilisation processes

How we’re working to prevent the spread of COVID-19

Now that we’re back operating almost as normal, Wickham Terrace Dental are operating within the Australian Dental Association’s standard precautions for infection control.

We adhere to a number of stringent protocols for safety and sterilisation processes, including:

Hand hygiene

All our dental staff use alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) between patient appointments and also during interruptions within the one appointment. Our team apply ABHR onto dry hands and rub it on for 15-20 seconds, after which time their hands are dry. We’ve also trained all our staff on this correct way to use ABHR.

Wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

One important way to reduce the risk of transmission of infectious agents is to wear personal protective clothing and equipment where aerosols are likely to be generated – such as in some dental procedures.

We provide our dentists and clinical support staff with all appropriate necessary protective clothing and equipment for the procedure they’re carrying out. They’re also trained on the right way to use this PPE gear – such as the need to remove all “barrier protection”, including gloves, mask, eyewear and gown, before they leave the dental surgery.

a chemical indicator to show whether the load has passed. To ensure accuracy and performance, our Lisa autoclaves are validated annually by an external service technician.

This comprehensive process ensures that all our instruments are cleaned, sterilised, and ready to be used safely with all our patients.

Instrument reprocessing

To ensure that potentially contaminated dental instruments do not transmit infections between our patients, it’s essential that instruments are correctly reprocessed between each patient.

Reprocessing refers to the system that is needed to make these contaminated reusable devices ready to be used once again. The steps can include cleaning, functional testing, packaging, labelling, disinfection and sterilisation.

At Wickham Terrace Dental we follow the recommended specific reprocessing requirements for each of the three instrument/risk categories: critical items (such as dental forceps or instruments used for implants) that are used for surgical dental procedures like extractions; semi-critical items (such as mouth mirrors, dental tweezers, probes and the like); and the lowest risk non-critical items (such as protective eyewear, bib chains etc).

The type of instrument and its intended use determine the method of reprocessing and, as a general rule, if an instrument cannot be cleaned it cannot be safely reprocessed.

Instrument cleaning

We’re meticulous about cleaning all our dental instruments. We follow the ADA’s guidelines for infection control with a very thorough process.

We start with a chairside pre-cleaning to remove any tissue or substances after a procedure. It’s an important step, because the presence of organic material on instruments can prevent proper disinfection and sterilisation. In fact this is one of the ADA’s strong recommendations for improving the safety and effectiveness of instrument reprocessing.

The instruments are then mechanically cleaned with our Tethy disinfectant machine, a more efficient way of pre-sterilisation cleaning than either ultrasonic cleaners or manual cleaning. It’s very important that the instruments are dried before sterilisation, and the Tethy’s drying cycle does away with the need for a separate drying step by getting rid of any residual moisture on the instruments.

Once they’re clean, it’s then time for instruments to be sterilised in our “Lisa” autoclave, which we had installed new in June 2019. The Lisa autoclave offers B class sterilisation, which means air is removed from the chamber before steam enters under pressure to completely sterilise our instruments.

We carry out weekly and daily performance tests before using the Lisa autoclaves, and every cycle has a chemical indicator to show whether the load has passed. To ensure accuracy and performance, our Lisa autoclaves are validated annually by an external service technician.

This comprehensive process ensures that all our instruments are cleaned, sterilised, and ready to be used safely with all our patients.