Pacific Smiles Group Opens New Dental Centre in Melton, Victoria

Pacific Smiles Group is proud to announce the opening of a new dental centre under the Pacific Smiles Dental brand, in Melton, Victoria. Located at the brand new, redeveloped Woodgrove Shopping Centre, this new dental centre will provide greater access to dental care for the local community.

The new Melton centre is the second centre opened by Pacific Smiles Group in two months, with Chatswood nib Dental Care Centre having opened in November. The new Melton centre will be the 11th Dental Centre in Victoria for Pacific Smiles Group and the 36th Dental Centre in their multi‐state network.

Pacific Smiles Dental, Melton will provide dental care 7 days a week, with before and after work appointments and daily emergency appointments available. As with all Pacific Smiles Dental Centres, arrangements are in place with major health funds to provide maximum value to the privately insured members of the community.

Services that will be offered at Pacific Smiles Dental, Melton include general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, dentures, crowns and veneers, implant dentistry, teeth whitening and custom-made mouth guards.

The brand new dental facility will, at this stage, be home to three Dentists offering the above dental services. The three practitioners will share the 7 day trading period.

Pacific Smiles Dental, Melton Centre Manager Mishelle Vranesic says "The new centre will provide much needed 7 day access to dental care for patients in Melton, in a convenient location".

Melton Community Snapshot:

• Melton is a part of Greater Melbourne, located 45km from the CBD.
• In 2011/2012, it had the 5th largest population growth in the country. As of the 30th April 2013, the total Melton population exceeded 121,000. Between 2001 and 2013 the residential population of the city more than doubled./li>
• Large population growth led to the Woodgrove Shopping Centre doubling in size. The redeveloped shopping centre officially opened on 31st October 2013. Now with 150 stores, the shopping centre will become the shopping and entertainment destination for the city (previously locals drove up to half an hour away to other shopping centres)./li>
• The Melton community is primarily made up of young families. In 2011 (census year) there were 29,416 families, each with an average of 1.9 children./li>
• The average age of the population is 32 years old. The average weekly household income is $1363./li>
• The large majority of the population was born in Australia (approximately 80%)./li>