Our Story

Dr Carol Au graduated with honours from the University of Queensland in 1993.  She was awarded The Carlisle C. Bastian Prize and The Vardiman Dental Study Association Prize by showing the greatest Clinical aptitude in crown and bridge work.

Since graduation, she was appointed back by the Dean of Dental faculty in the University of Queensland to be a clinical supervisor for undergraduate student.  Carol also opened her own private practice in Indooroopilly for 7 years which was later sold due to her family relocating to the Redlands area.

Dr Carol Au joined the Redlands Gentle Dental Care in 2000.  As part of her continued efforts to provide the best care to her patients, she regularly attends further postgraduate University dental educational programmes in Australia, United State and Hong Kong.

Carol has enjoyed all facets of dentistry and feels rewarded when treating families especially watching their children grow up.

Dr Carol Au is a member of the Australian Dental Association, and has a keen interest in crown and bridge work, cosmetic and restorative dentistry.

Carol lives locally with her husband Anthony and has two children.  Outside dentistry, she enjoys travelling, walking and reading.  She loves to spend quality time with her family and enjoys just being a mum.

Helping people get out of pain has been one of Deepak’s motivating reasons for becoming a dentist.  He loves seeing smiling people around and hence decided to become a dentist as this was the best way to give people their Best Smiling Face.  Dr Parwani’s areas of interest in dentistry include gentle general dental work and he has an affinity for restoring teeth with root canal treatment, crowns, veneers and implants. He is a compassionate dentist and aims to help people have a painless and pleasant dental experience.

He is blessed with a lovely wife who also happens to be a dentist and they have a cute little boy. Music, stand-up comedy and travelling are his hobbies and he loves doing charity work specially helping the less fortunate ones by donating his time and services.

Deepti enjoys working with patients with dental phobias and takes special care to ensure their experience is positive and is always prepared to go that extra mile for her patients comfort.

Deepti likes to take time and discuss different treatment options and also assist patients with questions and concerns.

Firmly believes in prevention is better than cure and has been working hard to instill good oral hygiene habits.

Finds it very rewarding to see patients who were once dental phobic and are now enthusiastic patients. Also loves to see the families she has been looking after over the years achieve optimum oral health.

Emily completed her Bachelor of Oral Health in Dental Science and Graduate Diploma in Dentistry at Griffith University. During her study at Griffith University, she also completed her Honours for her Bachelor whilst studying for her Graduate Diploma. She conducted her research in the Endodontic and Microbiology field of Dentistry and has led her to be a guest lecturer at the RACDS (Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons) for QLD ‘Scientific Day’ in 2013.

Emily has joined the team at Redlands Gentle Dental, following rural experience in Mt Isa and Toowoomba. She gained wide a range of general dentistry including treatment planning, paediatric and restorative dentistry.

She has a strong commitment in furthering her education and research. She attends various dental conferences to ensure modern dental treatment is provided for her patients and further extends herself in the field, having also recently published a research article in endodontics.

Dr Grace Sha completed her dental degree with at the University of Melbourne and received the Victorian Women Dentists’ Association Award for Female with Highest Aggregate Mark Over Years 2 to 5 in 2009.

After working for several years in Sydney, Grace moved back to Brisbane in 2013 to be closer to her family. She has been in full-time private practice in addition to being a sessional clinical supervisor at the Griffith University School of Dentistry.

Grace’s gentle and caring manner has helped many anxious patients overcome their fears of coming to the dentist regularly. She takes time to communicate procedures and treatment options to her patients, and enables her patients to make informed decisions about their health with clear and personalized explanations.

Grace enjoys all aspects of general dentistry with special interest in children’s dentistry, preventive dentistry, crowns and bridges, and oral surgery. She believes firmly in prevention being better than cure, and finds great joy in building rapport with patients and watching families she looks after grow, returning happier and better educated in oral health each time.

Joon grew up in Brisbane and obtained his dental degree from the University of Queensland in 2008. He has a friendly personality and gentle nature which helps his patients always feel comfortable and at ease in the dental chair.

He focuses on listening to his patients and will take the time to explain in detail and answer any questions using non-dental terminology to ensure his patients have a good understanding of all procedures and treatment options.

Joon loves his gadgets and routinely takes photographs to show his patients detailed photos of their dental conditions and to address any cosmetic concerns that his patients may have.

Being a bit of a perfectionist he always strives to perfect and hone his dentistry skills and is often commended for his gentleness in administering local anaesthetic.

After Tatiana graduated in 1997, she concluded Masters in Oral Biology in 2000, followed by PhD in Oral Biology in 2002. As a result of her Post-Graduation experience, she have worked as a Lecturer/Researcher since 2001, and also had the opportunity to work as a Research Manager, between 2005 and 2006. Tatiana also lectured for two specialization Courses of Dental Implants whereas living in Brazil.

From 2002 until 2008 Tatiana had the opportunity to work with an oral and maxillofacial surgeon as an assistant dentist (under supervision work), preparing and informing patients, assisting during surgery and performing post-surgical care. She also worked at his surgery performing TMD and Orofacial Pain treatments. From 2005 to 2009 Tatiana worked in her co-owned surgery with two professionals, performing General Dentistry with emphasis with periodontal treatment, Implants and Orofacial Pain treatment. During this time Tatiana worked with other dentist specialists (Endodontics and Prosthodontics), offering care to patients in a wide broad of special care.  Since Tatiana started working as a Dental practitioner in Australia (2013) she has worked as a clinical supervisor as well as a part time dentist, mainly performing cosmetic dentistry, minor oral surgery and periodontal treatments. In 2015, Tatiana embraced the challenge of being the Principal Dentist of a brand new surgery, achieving spectacular results, while surprisingly expecting her second child. Currently Tatiana is working as a general dentist here with us at Redlands Gentle Dental Care in Capalaba.