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A patient story from our practice
When an 83-Year-Old Patient Wouldn’t Leave the Chair
The 83-year-old woman stood frozen at the doorway, gripping the frame. She couldn’t step into the dental room. Three appointments later, she wouldn’t leave – held Dr. Singh’s hand, asked for a hug, kept repeating “you’re the best dentist I’ve ever seen.” This happens more than you’d think in Dr. Singh’s practice.
Supriya wasn’t always sure dentistry was the answer. Early in her training, a patient came in hiding their smile behind their hand, the way people do when shame becomes habit. After the restorative work, they sat in the chair staring at the mirror, then started crying. Not from pain. From seeing themselves differently for the first time in years. Dr. Singh knew then that teeth are just the beginning of what changes.
An Artist’s Approach to Cosmetic Dentistry
The orthodontics training with OrthoEd Melbourne last year? That came from watching how crooked teeth affect everything – how people eat, how they age, how they feel walking into job interviews. The full mouth rehabilitation certification? Same reason. One problem usually connects to five others. Like the diabetic patient during dental school who needed extractions but whose blood sugar made it dangerous. She spent weeks coordinating with his physician, adjusting timelines, monitoring levels. You learn fast that the mouth tells you what’s happening everywhere else.
She sketches in the evenings, the same attention to line and shadow she brings to shaping a crown. Poetry too, though she’ll tell you it’s just scribbling. The yoga isn’t about flexibility; it’s about staying steady when an anxious patient needs two hours for what should take twenty minutes. These aren’t separate from the dental work. They’re how she sees it.
Breaking Language Barriers with a Hindi-Speaking Dentist in Brisbane
Hindi helps. Half her patients relax when they can explain their fear in their first language. She picks up on the small stuff – nail biting in the waiting room, shoulders up by the ears, the way someone’s voice gets higher when they’re scared. So she adjusts. First visit might just be talking. Second, maybe x-rays. By the time she actually picks up a drill, they trust her.
The cosmetic work like crowns, veneers, fixing what years of coffee and life have done, that’s where her sketching eye comes in. She sees the geometry of a face, how a slightly different angle on an incisor changes everything. But she also knows when someone says they want veneers, they’re really saying they want to stop covering their mouth when they laugh.
Why Kids and Elderly Patients Request Dr. Singh in Brisbane?
Kids and elderly patients get extra time. Always. The seven-year-old who needs a filling gets the full explanation of every tool, gets to hold the mirror, gets to be the assistant. The ninety-year-old with arthritis who can’t brush properly anymore gets solutions, not lectures.
She reads the journals, takes the courses. Implants are next – she’s deep in that training now. Not because she needs more certificates on the wall, but because patients keep asking if she can do everything in one place. They trust her. They don’t want to start over with someone else.
The Wedding Photo That Changed Everything
Here’s what matters. She had a patient recently who hadn’t smiled in a family photo in fifteen years. After the veneers, they sent her a picture from their daughter’s wedding. Huge grin, right in front. That’s the job. Not the teeth. The wedding photo. The job interview where you don’t think about your smile. The first date where you laugh without calculation.
Come in scared if you need to. The panic attacks, the childhood trauma from bad dentists, the decades of avoidance. She’s seen it all. She won’t judge. She’ll probably tell you about the patient who made her wait outside the room for ten minutes before they could even sit in the chair. That patient now comes in for cleanings every six months, no anxiety medication needed.
From Dental Degree to Continuous Learning in Modern Dentistry
The poetry and sketching aren’t just hobbies – they’re how she processes the weight of what people trust her with. When someone hasn’t been to a dentist in twenty years because of fear, that’s heavy. When a teenager gets their braces off and sees themselves as beautiful for the first time, that’s heavy too, but different.
She’s building her implant skills because mouths are puzzles and she likes solving the whole thing, not just pieces. The orthodontic training opened up how she sees movement and time. Teeth shift, faces change, what works at thirty might not at sixty. It’s all connected, like that diabetic patient taught her.
Your First Visit with Dr. Singh
You want someone who’ll remember your name, your specific fear, your weird tooth sensitivity on the left side. Someone who gets that a dental visit for an anxious person is like climbing a mountain. She’s your sherpa. She’s climbed it hundreds of times, knows where the rough spots are, and won’t let you fall.
Book the appointment with Dr. Singh. Or just come talk first at our Brighton office. Whatever works. The chair will be there when you’re ready.
