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Located in Townsville, NQ Surgical Dentistry caters to every patient not only from the region of North Queensland but also further afield
A patient can fly into Townsville for treatment with Dr Priestland from anywhere in Australia. In view of patients traveling long distances to visit the practice, we will help to make your visit as pleasant as possible, and if required we can assist with advice on accommodation and local restaurants.
If you would like to become a patient of Dr Priestland’s or have any questions you’d like to ask Dr Priestland, you can call us or click through to our ‘Ask Dr Priestland’ page. This section allows you to send your question to Dr Priestland and he will happily respond with an answer that may help others.
contact the friendly team at NQ Surgical Dentistry today on (07) 4725 1656 or call in to see us at 183 Kings Rd, Pimlico QLD 4812
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A patient’s dental health is something we pride our services is helping to maintain the best possible outcome.
27 Dental Answers You Need to Know!
There are around 700 different species of bacteria and fungi living in our mouths and many take part in the formation of bacterial plaque. This plaque is a living biofilm that forms in the mouth on teeth, soft tissues, dentures and fillings. It forms...
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Dental Hygienists Save Implants
Dental Hygienists Saves Your Dental Implants Implants can be a great way to replace missing teeth. However, like your natural teeth, dental implants also need to be looked after carefully to keep them healthy. This involves good patient care and regular...
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Guided Biofilm Therapy
A New Approach And A Real Game Changer For many years little has changed in the approach to the prevention of dental decay and gum disease and the treatment of gum disease. The simple message for all patients has always been, and must remain, “eat less...
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Hygienist Will Make You Smile I overheard our hygienist’s humorous comment to a patient recently and it made me laugh. She told him, “just clean the teeth you want to keep”. How true that was! He was doing a great job on the front teeth but things weren’t...
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Screw in Teeth!
CAN YOU SCREW IN TEETH? More and more patients are asking us “do you do screw in teeth”? They’ve seen the magazines and the ads on TV and either they can’t smile or they can’t eat very well and want a solution they can live with. THE WAY IT WAS False...
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Top 5 Questions Asked Before Wisdom Teeth Removal
Top 5 Questions To Ask Before Wisdom Teeth Removal CAN MY WISDOM TEETH REMOVAL BE PERFORMED PAIN-FREE? NQ Surgical Dentistry provides various options for wisdom teeth removal to ensure your maximum comfort and care during surgery including a local...
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Breast-feeding & Oral Health: Information & Benefits
Breast-feeding and oral health Midwives and other healthcare professionals give new mums and dads a great deal of advice at prenatal classes. However, there is often relatively little information provided on breast-feeding and oral health including: Mother and child’s...
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Snoring & Sleep Apnoea (OSA) Explained
Snoring key points: Snoring is extremely common resulting from partial collapse of the soft tissues around the upper airway and is often associated with OSA Snoring is a frequent cause of bedroom-stress due to difficulty of partner sleeping Snoring often results in a...
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Failing teeth and what can be done? Part 2
There are solutions for your failing teeth, and part two aims to briefly outline all your options The most attractive options for an increasing number of people is an advanced approach that more and more patients are choosing to replace failing teeth. The options...
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Failing teeth and how this happens? Part 1
Do you have failing teeth? If you have failing teeth affected by extensive dental decay or severe gum disease and you are worried about the prospect of losing your natural teeth, then this 2 part article series should provide you with some hope that you could have a...
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Oral Hygiene after Surgery FAQs – Part 4
In this final part, we look at oral hygiene, diet and is salt water useful? In part three we looked at what medication you can take at home, what to do about bleeding and when your stitches can be removed. In this, the final part, we look at oral hygiene, your diet,...
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Bleeding after Surgery FAQs – Part 3
In part three we look at - what to do about bleeding at home, what medication you can and can’t take and when can stitches be removed. Q. What should I do if I start bleeding later at home after dental surgery? Rarely is postoperative bleeding severe after dental...
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Swelling and Post-Operative FAQs – Part 2
Part two of our series looks at how to deal with swelling and infection post-operatively If you read this and feel there is an area of information on swelling or post-operative care that we have left out, please contact us and we can address the information you would...
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Pain & Dental Surgery After-Care FAQs – Part 1
In this 4 part series, we will look at some of the most commonly asked questions about dental surgery after-care If you read this and feel there is an area of information we have left out about after-care dental surgery and pain, please contact us and we can address...
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Drugs: Adverse effects of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
Drugs and Associated Risks There has been some discussion over the risk of an association between non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and a number of adverse side effects. These adverse effects include the following: hypertension (raised blood pressure)...
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Steroid Medications: Effects on your Teeth
Steroid Medications The final post in our “Medication and Dental Surgery: How your medical history influences treatment decisions” is on patients who routinely take steroid medications. Steroid medications are rarely used in dentistry, but in general medicine, they...
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Codeine sensitivity or allergy
Codeine and its Effects. The next article in our “Medication and Dental Surgery: How your medical history influences treatment decisions” series discusses Codeine sensitivity or allergy in patients and alternative medications you can take to reduce pain. If you have...
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Angina medications and dental treatment
Angina Mediation & Dental Treatments Post 7 in the “Medications and Dental Surgery: How your medical history influences treatment decisions” series discusses Angina medications and how to manage them with dental treatment. Heart-related chest pain, also known as...
read more Anticoagulant & anti-platelet medications
Anticoagulant and Anti-Platelet Medications In this post of our “Medication and Dental Surgery: How your medical history influences treatment decisions” series we discuss anticoagulant and antiplatelet medications. Many patients with cardiac problems take either...
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Cardiac Disease and Implementing Dental Management for Surgery In our series of “Medication and Dental Surgery: How your medical history influences treatment decisions” series we discuss cardiac disease and its impacts on dental management. In an attempt to prevent an...
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