Family & Children’s Dentistry - Thornbury Family Dental

Family & Children’s Dental Care in Thornbury

At Thornbury Family Dental, we believe your entire family deserves to have healthy teeth for life. Our dental team can protect your smile, no matter what your age or level of oral health, so that you can have a look you’re proud to show off. We offer an array of family and children’s dentistry services for your benefit.

Children’s Dentistry

Parents know about the importance of catching any potential problems early. We recommend that your child’s first dental appointment take place at age 1, allowing them to feel familiar with the dentist and our practice. Beginning healthy oral habits young means that any issues can be caught and treated immediately in the most cost-effective and least invasive ways.

Caring for Baby Teeth

“It’s just baby teeth that will fall out anyway — what does it matter?” This dental myth couldn’t be further from the truth. Your baby’s teeth are the foundation of their future oral health. If not properly cared for with regular oral hygiene habits, it can lead to greater problems further down the road. We’ll be happy to discuss the best ways to ensure your child’s teeth are protected with you at their appointment and address any potential issues immediately.

Paediatric Dental Services

With a gentle, friendly team of dentists, your child can learn early on that their appointments can be a pleasant experience. In addition to teaching them proper oral hygiene, we offer a range of services that children can often benefit from:

Fissure sealants
Comprehensive examinations
Tooth-coloured fillings
Remineralising and fluoride treatments

Learn About the Child Dental Benefits Schedule

As a parent, your highest priority is safeguarding your child’s wellbeing. The federal government has introduced the Child Dental Benefits Schedule (CBDS) which makes oral health assessable to all children.

The CBDS is for children who are

Between 2 to 17 years old
Enrolled in Medicare
In families that receive certain payments for at least part of the calendar year, such as Family Tax Benefit A payments

What’s Covered?

CBDS covers dental services including examinations, X-rays, fissure sealing, cleanings, extractions, fillings and root canals. However it does not include orthodontic, cosmetic or services performed in hospital.The benefit provides up to $1000 that can be used over the course of two years.

Begin Your Child’s Journey to Lifetime Oral Health with Thornbury Family Dental

While not all dentists are providers for the CBDS, at Thornbury Family Dental we’re happy to provide treatment for those covered under the plan. We’ll explain all expenses up front to you, ensuring that we have parental consent before starting treatment. Once all costs have been outlined, you can decide if you’d like to use the allocation all at once if it’s necessary to do so, or if you’d prefer to spread it out over the two-year period. If you’re unsure how much your child has left of their allocation, we’ll look that information up for you and inform you of any possible out-of-pocket expenses.

HELP YOUR CHILD GAIN LIFETIME ORAL HEALTH

At Thornbury Family Dental we are passionate about children having access to the best dental care available. We have evening and Saturday appointments available, so there’s no need to miss school! Same-day, weekday after-hours, and Saturday visits are available. Contact us today to schedule your appointment!

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the Thornbury Family Dental website. At Thornbury Family Dental, we are committed to protecting your privacy as an online visitor to our website. The Thornbury Family Dental website is provided for information and educational purposes and may contain links to other sites. Once you enter another website (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that Thornbury Family Dental is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every website that you visit.

We believe that transparency is the key to any healthy relationship. At Thornbury Family Dental, we’re all about healthy. We appreciate that you are trusting us with information that is important to you, and we want to be transparent about how we use it. Here we describe the privacy practices for our website and you will learn about the data we collect, how we use it, the controls we give you over your information, and the measures we take to keep it safe.

Information We Collect and How We Use Information

We collect the following personal information from you on the Thornbury Family Dental website forms.

First and Last name
Email address
Phone number

By entering this information, you are providing personal information that will be used by Thornbury Family Dental for the sole purpose of scheduling your appointment or returning your contact request.

If you choose to enroll as a subscriber of our website or subscribe to our blog, you will receive recurring practice newsletters, announcements and occasional promotional information via email. These emails will be of a general nature and will in no way disclose your unique health characteristics. At the time you subscribe or any time thereafter, you can choose to opt-out of receiving these emails from us.

To subscribe to our website, we need certain contact information, such as your name and email address. We may also store any provided demographic information (such as gender, birth date and address), but it is not required. You can unsubscribe from the newsletters by simply clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our emails; you will be immediately unsubscribed.

Passive Information We Collect

Like many other websites, we also automatically collect and log other non-identifying information when you interact with the Thornbury Family Dental website:

Device data. We collect data from the device and application you use to access the Thornbury Family Dental website, such as your Internet protocol (IP) addresses, operating system, device type, browser type and timestamps.

Usage data. We collect usage data that may include which Thornbury Family Dental webpages you visit, what you click on, when you performed those actions, and so on. Emails sent by Thornbury Family Dental collect information about who opened those emails and clicked on links in them. We do this to measure the performance of the Thornbury Family Dental email messaging and to monitor and improve email deliverability and open rates.

How Information Is Shared

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy or as specifically agreed to by you, Thornbury Family Dental will not disclose any Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information it gathers from you on our website. We will only release Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to third parties:

to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order.
in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable or Personal Health Information to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below.

Your Rights To Access and Control Your Personal Data

You may ask us at any time for information about any personal data we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete that information. We will complete this request within 30 days of the initial request for information being received. Please e-mail us at info@dentistthornbury.com.au to start this process. If you need further assistance regarding your rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@dentistthornbury.com.au, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.

Data Retention

We keep the information we have about you and your use of the Services for as long as necessary for our legitimate business interests, for legal reasons, historical research and to prevent harm, including as described in the How We Use Information and How Information Is Shared sections.

Analytics and Advertising Services Provided by Others

Google Analytics. In addition, our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Further information may be obtained by visiting Google’s privacy policy.

We use this information to conduct research and analysis to better understand how visitors are using the Thornbury Family Dental website, so that we can improve our website experience. From time to time, Thornbury Family Dental or it’s operations contractors acting on their behalf, conduct online research in order to gather feedback about our site through online or email surveys.

Cookie Policy

We use cookies and other technologies to ensure that everyone who uses Thornbury Family Dental website has the best possible experience. By continuing to visit or use our services, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes we describe in this policy.

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may worsen your overall user experience, since it will no longer be personalized to you.

Our cookie table lists some of the third party cookies on our sites. Please note that the names of cookies, pixels and other technologies may change over time. Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

List of examples of cookies used by Thornbury Family Dental

Cookie Name	Purpose	Expiration	Privacy
Set By Or On Behalf Of	Purpose	Expiration	Privacy
Google Analytics	Website analytics cookie for visitor information and source.	2 years	https://policies.google.com/privacy
responsivevoice.org	Used by the content network, Cloudflare, to identify trusted web traffic.	1 year	https://www.cloudflare.com/security-policy
Userway	Accessibility widget remembers which accessibility features were enabled.	Persistent	https://userway.org/privacy
Hotjar	Video Recording and Heatmap testing tool.	1 year	https://www.hotjar.com/privacy
Wistia	Embedding interactive videos on our website and measuring engagement.	1 year	https://wistia.com/privacy/
MaxCDN	Content Delivery Network.	1 year	https://www.maxcdn.com/legal/
Facebook	To enable the visitors to share the page in Facebook and stores page share count.	Persistent	https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
YouTube	Embedding videos on our website and measuring engagement.	1 year	https://policies.google.com/privacy
Formstack	Provides embedded online form functionality.	1 year	https://www.formstack.com/privacy

Our Policies for Children

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children. Neither Thornbury Family Dental nor any of its services are designed or intended to attract children under the age of 13.

Direct Marketing, Free offers, & opt-ins

Participation in providing your email address in return for an offer from this site is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose your information. You may unsubscribe at any time so that you will not receive future emails.

Thornbury Family Dental may contact you with information about different products and services and offers. If you have chosen to register for email newsletters, Thornbury Family Dental may use your email address as a mean to deliver any additional information including updates to the website, any new loyalty offers, product launches, competitions, industry events and other information of this relevance.

You may wish to opt out at any time if you no longer wish to receive commercial messages from us. You can make this request by contacting us directly.

Information Security

We work hard to keep your data safe. We use a combination of technical, administrative, and physical controls to maintain the security of your data. This includes using Transport Layer Security (“TLS”) to encrypt many of our Services. No method of transmitting or storing data is completely secure, however, if you have a security-related concern, please contact customer support at info@dentistthornbury.com.au.

Changes to This Policy

Thornbury Family Dental reserves the right to make amendments to this Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of the Thornbury Family Dental site will indicate acceptance of the changes. Please exit the site immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy.

How To Contact Us

If you have questions, suggestions, or concerns about this policy, or about our use of your information, please contact us.

Thornbury Family Dental
Shop 2, 679-685 High Street
Thornbury Victoria 3071
Australia
info@dentistthornbury.com.au
(03) 9977 7858