BDS, MDS (Paed Dent) (Hong Kong), DClinDent (Paediatrics) (WA), MRACDS (Paed), Specialist Paediatric Dentist
Dr Vaish Gopalakrishnan is a female Specialist Paediatric Dentist who speaks Hindi and Tamil (as well as English).
Dr Vaish Gopalakrishnan completed her dentistry in 2007 and knew straightaway she wanted to work with children. She worked at a Paediatric dental practice for a year before she moved to Hong Kong to pursue her Masters in Dental surgery (Paediatric dentistry) from the prestigious University of Hong Kong dental school. In 2011, she moved to Australia and in 2013 joined the Doctor in Clinical Dentistry, Paediatric dentistry program offered through UWA to pursue further post graduate training in paediatric dentistry.
In the 18 months of this training she worked at the Princess Margaret hospital dental department, attended emergency on calls, was actively involved in management of new-born babies with cleft lip and palate and the cleft clinic, along with management of medically compromised children while also seeing to patients at the Oral health centre of WA. She completed her Membership exams in paediatric dentistry with the Royal Australian college of dental surgeons. She has also briefly worked in the School dental service and at the new Perth Children’s Hospital dental department.
Dr Vaish is passionate about working with children and this is obvious in the way she handles them, she is patient and caring with the anxious little ones and believes her most important job is to give each child a positive experience and let them grow into happy dental patients! She goes out of her way to help parents understand the needs of the child and make them comfortable with the plan.
