Preferred Provider | The Smile Team - Complete Family and Cosmetic Dental Care

We encourage health funds to our patients if the situation suits, but comparing getting glasses to wear from a Preferred Provider and receiving dental treatment from a Preferred Provider is like comparing apples and oranges. Any dentist can become a provider dentist by signing a contract to charge patients a health fund determined fee for treatment that is conducted. In return, the provider dentist can gain more patients as they receiving marketing from the health fund under a Health Fund Preferred Provider title.

Dental care costs however vary depending upon; the number of sterilization procedures carried out to protect each patient, the quality of the fillings/medications used, the time/care taken planning for your appointment, the time/care taken to comprehensively carry out the examination/treatment, the quality of the laboratories used to construct dentures/crowns, the amount of training that the dentists and our entire team attend regularly, the needs of individual patients, just to name a few.

We are not a Health Fund Preferred Provider, nor are we likely to be in the future. We agree with the Australian Dental Association statement "Health Funds set their rebates at a level that suits their commercial needs. Those rebates are not related to any recognised fee scale." After all, no two patients are ever the same, and compromises in care may occur under arrangements where fees are predetermined by the health fund for each and every patient.

We believe along with the vast majority of the profession that there is no room for cutting corners on your health. You will always find more expensive or cheaper fees, but we guarantee that you will not find better value for money than at the smile team.