THE INTERSECTION OF DENTAL AESTHETICS AND WELLBEING Dr Martina Lavery merges the world of dental health, aesthetic treatments, and overall wellbeing – and discovered an unexpected side effect of Covid-stress.
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r Martina Lavery has been a dentist for over 22 years in the Hills District, Sydney. Her clinic, Martina Dental + Aesthetics, was born out of a vision to provide dental care of the highest standard in a caring and calm environment. She studied dentistry in her native land, Ireland, in Belfast, before migrating to Sydney after meeting her husband in Adelaide while on a forensic dentistry scholarship at Adelaide University. Dr Martina has a passion for and is interested in cosmetic dentistry, aesthetics and the oral microbiome. She loves the process of working closely with patients to build trust and achieve undetectable aesthetic results. It is a great privilege to work on people’s faces and teeth, she says, and focuses on achieving wellness through oral health integration and education. Dr Martina’s philosophy of care is preventative, respecting how the health of your mouth is integral to your overall wellbeing.
A holistic approach to ageing and wellbeing Being a huge advocate and believer in the wellness model of dental medicine, rather than just treating oral diseases, Dr Martina educates patients on achieving the best outcomes for their health and wellbeing, which is central to her philosophy of rejuvenation and pro-ageing. This integrated philosophy saw her explore facial pain management, and with neuromodulators being one of the options for treating temporomandibular joint (TMJ) dysfunction, she collaborated closely with specialists in this field, which ultimately led to the introduction of facial aesthetics to her practice. She is one of the few dentists to study a Master's degree in Facial Aesthetic Medicine and a Diploma of Dermal Therapies to support her training in aesthetics as an adjunct to her practice of cosmetic dentistry.
How Covid has changed our face shapes Fast forward to coming out of the most recent 100-day lockdown, not a day passed without a patient presenting with facial pain and TMJ discomfort due to the enormous stressors of the pandemic. In the 2020 lockdown, treating only essential and emergency patients, Dr Martina observed 46 | SPA+CLINIC
