Welcome to The Gum Sanctuary, we are happy to answer any telephone enquiries. We endeavour to offer same day assistance for gum infections, and provide gum disease screening for any age.
If you have bleeding, infected or receding gums, yellow roots showing, or exposed veneers, crowns, implants or next to dentures; we can perform microplastic gum surgery to regenerate the tissues. Lost gum and bone between teeth can be regenerated.
For patients with veneers or crowns, we provide specialist gum maintenance to maintain or improve smile aesthetics.
Patients appreciate that the cost of regenerating tooth supporting structures to save a tooth, is at least one quarter of the cost of implant therapy. If you have already missing teeth we place the latest and most researched implant systems. We also specialise in mending referred failing implants and have just completed the 2022 microsurgical update.
People give us daily feedback on how gentle they find our care and how pleased they are to keep teeth they expected to lose.
About
Dr Matthew Hunter . Specialist Periodontist UK/AUS
MRD.RCS(Eng), FDS.RCS(Eng), FFD.RCSI(Periodontology), LDS.RCS(Eng), MSc(Lond.Guy’s), MClinDent(Lond, Guy’s), BDS(Lond.UCH), BSc(Hons)
Is a registered periodontal specialist and has held a UK GDC specialist registration. He holds dual masters degrees in periodontology and clinical dentistry.. He has been awarded by full hospital training and examination; Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (in special field streams of oral surgery and oral medicine), a higher Fellowship in Periodontics at the Royal College of Surgeons, in Ireland, and was admitted to a Membership in Restorative Dentistry at the Royal College of Surgeons in England. He studied dentistry at University College Hospital in London while completing an honours science degree 2 years in Anatomy at University College London supported by a two year Medical Research Council scholarship.
Matt presented his Masters thesis at the Royal Society in the field of class switching antibiotic resistance genes in periodontitis. His UCL anatomy thesis was the first on 3D laser scanning of osteocyte density changes in facial growth mosaics and he received firsts for a theses on dental pulp ultra-microstructure with the first pulp isolation technique ever published, and on the first 3D coding simulation of tissue reconstruction. He is an expert molecular biologist and cytogeneticist with a particular interest in morphogenesis and in the general science of flow fields. He was awarded the Harty Medal of the British Endodontic Society, the operative technique, and prosthetics essay prizes. He completed training as house and senior house surgeon in oral maxillofacial surgery at Roehampton and Northampton hospitals, in the Oxford Deanery, and completed his surgical Fellowship. He was offered a full MRC training fellowship whilst reading for a PhD in repairing stem cell metastatic genes at UCL, and created the first UCL cancer stem cell tissue bank.
Whilst a specialist registrar at King College, he taught final year dental undergraduates and hygienists, and on completion at Westmead in Sydney, ran the specialist periodontal unit as a staff specialist and held a Lecturership then was Senior Lecturer in Periodontology at University of Sydney. He trained over 40 registrars in periodontology and related fields, and over 800 undergraduates. He subsequently trained hygienists and dentists in advanced periodontal techniques and concepts. He introduced stem cell engineering to Westmead oral medicine registrars in stem cell generation for their research theses. He currently runs courses in microsurgical regeneration of gum and bone tissue around teeth and implants and assisting dentists and specialists in preparation for primary and secondary fellowship examinations and specialist entry programs.
He is a member of the British Society of Periodontology, is an EFP specialist presenter, and has over 20 years of specialist experience and 32 years dental experience. He lives in Coogee with his wife , three teenagers and two massive cats.