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Meet the Team

Brisbane Dental Implants: Dental Implants in Brisbane, Queensland

At Brisbane Dental Implant Group we aspire to help you recapture your oral and general well-being as well as the appearance of your smile.
Our team of experienced Dental Implant Professionals looks forward to working with you.

Meet Dr Michael Howard BDSc

Director of Brisbane Dental Implant Group

Michael Howard is a general dental practitioner, with a full time practice limited to dental implants. With almost 20 years of surgical and prosthetic experience in multiple implant systems, Dr Howard has established the Brisbane Dental Implant Group, to provide complete, caring implant therapy for his patients.

By bringing together all specialty groups potentially involved in implant therapy into our purpose built specialized facility, we are able to provide efficient coordinated treatment.

Dr Howard has 3 children and his wife is a full-time artist. He has keen interests in fishing and boating and the arts.

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Meet Dr Anthony Lynham BDSc BMed (Hons) FRACDS (OMS) FRCS.Ed

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

Dr Anthony Lynham is an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon practicing in Brisbane. He commits to both private and public practice and is directly involved with the selection and training of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in Australia. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland and Director of an Educational and Surgical Foundation in Australia and New Zealand.

In implantology, his interest is the provision of a physiological and surgical base upon which subsequent implant placement is problem free with an excellent functional and aesthetic outcome.

He has been performing bone grafting procedures for a wide number of implant practitioners. Where there is a deficiency of bone for implant placement, Dr Lynham provides appropriate grafting surgery.

Dr Lynham is happily married with four children at last count! His interests include all forms of sport, classic cars and beef cattle breeding.

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Meet Dr Peter Russell BDSc MSc GCEd FADI

Prosthodontist

Dr Peter Russell is a registered specialist in Prosthodontics. He is involved in teaching removable and implant prosthodontics at the University of Queensland School of Dentistry.

His private practice is restricted to:

• Removable prosthodontics (complete and partial dentures)
• Removable implant-retained prosthodontics
• Implant crowns and bridges
• Fully edentulous implant cases
• Joint treatment planning
• Sleep apnoea management
• TMD management and splint construction

He is an ITI member and a member of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Prosthodontics.

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Meet Dr Kent Farmer BDSc MDSc (Qld)

Orthodontist

Kent Farmer is a Specialist Orthodontist with a full time private practice. He studied dentistry at the University of Queensland and graduated with first class honors in 1985. Kent worked for the following 2 years at Mt Isa Base Hospital. He then returned to the University of Queensland, completing his Masters in Orthodontics in 1990. Kent also has a keen interest in dental implants.

Kent has worked at ethos orthodontics since 1990. He does some part-time clinical supervision at the university, and has been President of the Queensland branch of the Australian Society of Orthodontists.

Kent is married with three children and loves family life. He is also a passionate sports fan.

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Meet Nigel Smith BPhty

Physiotherapist, Director of Body Mechanics Physical Therapy Centre

Nigel graduated from the University of Queensland in 2000 and has been working as a private practitioner ever since.

Nigel became interested in conditions involving the TMJ (jaw) and face in 2005 and, at the request of Dr Anthony Lynham, established a small clinic at the Emlyn Street Specialist Centre in Coorparoo dedicated to the assessment and management of TMJ disorders and pain. Due to the success and demand of this clinic, Nigel was able to open a full time clinic with physiotherapist Scott Cook, which is committed to providing the highest level of care in musculoskeletal management to compliment the treatment of the Dentists, Oral Surgeons and Prosthodontists.

Nigel has lectured to the University of Queensland Dental Students about the importance of physiotherapy to compliment dentistry, and continues to source the latest research and treatment techniques to ensure best results for his patients.

Nigel can be contacted via the Emlyn Street Specialist Centre or by calling Body Mechanics Physical Therapy Centre on (07) 3862 6238.

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