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My Dentist team
From left: My Dentist Director Asanth Sebastian, My Dentist Director/Chief of Operations Asoka Amunugama, My Dentist Director Sharad Sri
Asia Pacific Dental Federation President-elect Dr. Suresh Shanmuganathan
Ataraxia Capital Partners once again brings back the chain concept with the launch of My Dentist – the latest and one-of-its-kind chain of dental clinics with the aim of advancing dental care with high-tech infrastructure.
My Dentist Ltd. is formed with major share-holding company Ataraxia Capital Partners in collaboration with Michel Casselman, CEO of PMV – a Belgian fund and the professional expertise of Dr. Asoka Amunugama and Dr. George Dias. Dr. Amunugama, Chairman – Commission on Defence Forces Dentistry, Asia Pacific Dental Federation 2014-2020, 1994-1996, President Sri Lanka Dental Association – 2013/4, 2002/3, President – Sri Lanka Association of Aesthetic and cosmetic Dentistry 2014, and Retired Director, Dental Services, Sri Lanka Air Force will head the operations.
The newest clinic is equipped with the skills to respond to the changing oral health needs and services for patients. Situated at Gregory’s Road, Colombo 7 with ample parking facilities, it is the first-of-its-kind in Sri Lanka that can boast of an expansion plan of installing a chain of My Dentist clinics in strategic locations across the country, all of which deliver a mixture of clinical services and cosmetic dentistry that is fundamental to the future of dental healthcare.
The face of dental healthcare internationally has changed dramatically in the last decade. Innovations in technology and advanced dental techniques have led to continued improvement in dental health; and My Dentist is proposed to provide its patients with all these latest innovations. Having invested extensively in the project, the company plans to expand into a chain of clinics. My Dentist hospitals after expansion, will be able to work more closely together due to its integrated digital documentation and filing system of patient dental records and information, combining their expertise to meet the challenges of an evolving need for specialised dentistry with convenience and ease to the patient.
The company’s strategic drivers are: Affordable care through payment solutions and instalment payment schemes, a team of two to three in-house dentists aided by a trained and efficient nursing staff, a panel of dental specialists that can be channelled with ease, use of modern restoration instruments with the highest level of sterilisation techniques and international standards as required by the WHO, use of digital X-Rays which reduces patient radiation exposure by up to 90%, five operating rooms which saves waiting time for patients, local patients and tourists who use My Dentist services can go for follow up visits to any of the proposed chain of hospitals to avoid travelling back to Colombo for treatment and ethical practices where invoicing for services with no inflated or duplicated charges to patients.
My Dentist services include: Orthodontics correction (instead of the conventional braces) – which is a specialty of dentistry that deals with the diagnosis, prevention and correction of
mal-positioned teeth and jaws. It can also focus on modifying facial growth, new concept of modern invisible braces for teeth alignment, oral rehabilitation implant surgery, advanced crown and bridge veneers for smile correction, Platelet Rich Fibrin, also known as PRF, is used in the area we wish to bone graft or as a membrane to help soft tissue heal faster. Highly used in extraction sites, implant procedures, tissue grafts and natural colour fillings using the modern painless laser beam filling system.