Course Description
The Children’s Hospital at Westmead Oral Health service provides specialist and emergency children’s dental services for eligible patients, as well as an inpatient consultative service.
We treat children who:
- have special needs, including children with medical conditions, syndromes, social or environmental deprivation/dislocation.
- have oro-facial anomalies or syndromes, including facial clefts, growth anomalies of teeth and associated structures.
- require specialist dental care under sedation or general anaesthesia emergency management of oro-facial trauma.
The Department operates as a hospital-based service to provide dental and surgical services to the emergency departments, inpatient units and speciality outpatient clinics. Registrars from the Westmead Centre for Oral Health (Westmead Dental Hospital) provide after-hours cover for our service.
- Location
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, corner of Hainsworth and Hawkesbury Road. Access to the department is on level 2 (entry-level)
- Phone
(02) 9845 2582
Training and resources
- Caring for your child's teeth
- Tooth development
- What to do if a child knocks out their adult front tooth
- See the Make Healthy Normal online resources. Provided by NSW Health, the website provides quizzes, tips, and meal planning for good oral health.
See the photos of a visit to the hospital dentist. This can also be used to support children with autism or learning difficulties.
Watch the Growing healthy teeth video.
A/Prof Richard Widmer (Head of Department)
Dr Diane Tay, Visiting Specialist Paediatric Dentist
Dr Winey WAN. BOH (USYD), BDSc (CSU)
Dr Melissa Warren, Visiting Specialist Paediatric Dentist