Meet The Team

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Dr Dennis Lee Chong first worked at the practice as an associate from 2011, sharing his time between here and a busy NHS practice. He eventually took over the practice in April 2014 and rebranded it, West Dulwich Dental. Since then, he has been developing and modernising the practice to provide the best quality care for his patients. Dennis has a very calming and gentle chair-side manner, which appeals to his patients, especially nervous patients.
He has a special interest in aesthetic dentistry and implant dentistry.

Qualifications:

BDS (Hons) NUI, University College Cork, Ireland (2009)
BSc (Physiology) McGill University, Canada (2002)

Christine is our Practice Manager. She is a qualified pharmacist and as well as helping to run her family’s pharmacy, she has very much enjoyed helping her husband modernise and develop the dental practice. From time to time, you may even see their kids Jayson, Kayla and Brayden, pop in to the practice to say hello.

Qualifications:

MRPharmS (UCL)

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Dr Mihir is our Associate Dentist working at West Dulwich Dental and has been providing high quality dentistry to his patients for over 10 years. His calm and caring nature allows even the most anxious patients to feel at ease, and his passion for studying and his commitment to excellence led him to recently be selected as a Finalist for Young Dentist of the Year in both the “Dentistry Awards” and “Private Dentistry Awards”.

Mihir has extensive experience in Invisalign and Composite bonding to provide bespoke smile makeovers and has recently completed a Postgraduate Diploma in advanced cosmetic dentistry. He also provides all aspects of general dentistry.

Qualifications:

BDS, King’s College London, 2012
PgDip Restorative and Aesthetics, 2023

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Annastasia qualified as a Dental Hygienist and Dental Therapist from the University of Sheffield in 2013. She has a wealth of experience working with both adults and children. Her warm and friendly manner puts even the most nervous patients at ease.

Annastasia is dedicated to providing a high quality standard of dentistry. She has an amazing ability to work with a patient, identify their individual needs and develop a hygiene program that helps improve not only their oral health but their confidence when smiling in general.

Improving and whitening patients’ teeth is an aspect of Annastasia’s job which she enjoys, as well as seeing patients’ self-confidence improve with brighter, whiter and healthier teeth.

Annastasia invests a lot of time in post graduate training. She has completed an intensive two day composite course with Fresh Dental Academy, a course in dental photography, numerous specific implant maintenance courses and is an accredited EMS GBT provider.

Annastasia is passionate about her career and alongside her clinical work, she is also a member of The British Society of Dental Hygiene and Therapists, running the London regional group events since 2015. She has also worked as a professional educator since 2017 regularly running continuing professional development courses for fellow dental professionals and writing articles for dental journals.

 

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Kristina qualified as a dental hygienist from Cardiff University in 2012.

She is a motivated, professional and passionate individual who strives to work to the very highest standard of treatment.

She is continuously finding ways to further her knowledge and skills and has attended many courses over the years including placement learnings with Dr Reena Wadia (Founder and Principal Gum Specialist of Perio School which is now the Leading Global Teaching Academy for Periodontal courses – advanced treatment techniques for gums). Kristina is currently working towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Perio.

Kristina is also a facial aesthetics practitioner and regularly provides dermal fillers and wrinkle correction treatments.

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Sasha is our dental hygienist and therapist who is currently covering Annastasia’s maternity leave.

She qualified as a dental hygienist and therapist from the University of Birmingham.

She is passionate about providing patients of all ages with high quality dental care and does this using a friendly and gentle approach.

Sasha enjoys all aspects of oral health education and aims to help patients take control of their oral health by educating them on the best preventative measures and techniques.

Outside of dentistry Sasha enjoys travelling with friends, trying new food spots and spending time outdoors!

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Eva is our head dental nurse. She is hard working, highly organised and efficient. She is meticulous in ensuring all surgeries are maintained to the highest standard with regard to infection control.

She always puts our patients’ needs first.

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Charu is our longest serving team member having worked with the previous owner and Dr Dennis Lee Chong. She is a very familiar face to our long standing loyal patients as well as a reassuring presence to our nervous patients.

Damla is our trainee dental nurse. She is caring, hard working and has a gentle demeanour which helps our nervous patients.

She is currently working towards gaining her dental nursing qualifications.

Joanna has over 16 years experience in reception. She is enthusiastic and loves talking to patients and helping them with any query. No task is impossible!

In her spare time she enjoys spending time with family, travelling and baking.