About Our Practice

Care that begins with listening

A family dental practice that has grown up alongside Wagga Wagga

For more than four decades, families across the Riverina have trusted us with the people they love most. We are a small, close team who know our patients by name — and often know their parents and their children too. That continuity matters. It means we understand your history, we notice what changes, and we can talk plainly with you about what your teeth actually need.

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Two of the practice team outdoors in autumn

Dentist treating a young child in the surgery

Our Story

Forty-three years in the same community

Dr Mary-Anne Slater has practised dentistry in Wagga Wagga since January 1984. What began small has grown to become a practice that looks after whole families — grandparents, parents and children who all sit in the same rooms, with the same team, year after year.

That length of relationship changes how dentistry is done. We are not meeting you for the first time when something goes wrong. We already know what your mouth looks like when it is healthy, so we can catch small problems while they are still small — and we can be honest when the right answer is to leave something alone.

What We Believe

Four things we hold to, whether we are seeing a two-year-old for their first visit or replacing a crown fitted twenty years ago.

You are told the truth

If a tooth can be watched rather than drilled, we will say so. We would rather lose the appointment than sell you treatment you do not need.

Nobody is judged

People arrive having avoided us for ten years, embarrassed. We have heard it all before and we start from where you are, not from where you think you should be.

You can stop at any moment

Raise a hand and we pause — children and adults alike. Knowing you can stop is usually what makes it possible to keep going.

The whole family, one practice

From a toddler’s first look to your grandmother’s dentures. Comprehensive individual electronic records, one team, and appointments we try to line up on the same afternoon.

Meet the Team

The same faces, visit after visit. You will not be handed between locums or asked to explain your history again.

Principal Dentist

Dr Mary-Anne Slater

Practising in Wagga Wagga since 1984. Mary-anne treats all ages and has a special interest in the anxious child or adult. She is known for explaining simply and honestly what she can see, before anything is decided.

Hygienist

Simone Alexander

Bachelor of Oral Health, with particular interests in gum disease and aged care. Has tutored oral health students at CSU and worked across the Riverina.

Receptionist

Annie Taylor

In the dental industry since 1987 and with the practice since 1997. Usually the first voice you hear when you call.

Senior Chair Side assistant

Jenny Swaysland

Jenny has been in the dental industry for 40 years which is a testament to how much she enjoys it and rewarding she finds it.

Chair Side assistant

Bridie Delahunty

Bridie is a familiar face around the practice, first joining our team back in 2022 before moving away to start her university studies.

What Makes Our Practice Different

The same standard of care sits behind every service we offer – 43 years of it, in one familiar practice on The Esplanade.

Qualifications & Training

Weekly mentoring with an oral surgeon, bimonthly mentoring with a cosmetic dentist, additional training in anxiety informed care and neurodiversity- affirming practice, annual CPR training for all the team.

Technology & Techniques

AIRFLOW gentle scale and clean, WAND la machine, digital imaging, intraoral cameras, stainless steel crowns, and sedation options including treatment under general anaesthetics for anxious patients.