Divine Smiles is run by Dr Ram Shanker Das (Das) and Dr Chitra Das (Chitra).
Das graduated in 1979 and his credentials are BDS MDS FRACDS. Chitra graduated with a BDS degree in 1986.
In NZ, Das served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force till 2002. Chitra joined the Midcentral Health Hospital Palmerston North and worked in the position of Senior Dental Officer till 2002.
They then migrated to Australia and Das took up the post of Manager Dental Services at the Wingecarribbee Health services in Bowral, a unit of South Western Sydney Area Health service. Chitra worked in the Dental Department as a Dental Officer.
It was there that the idea of settling down and setting up practice in the beautiful and warm city of Brisbane, in the form of Divine Smiles, took shape.
In the midst of these movements, Das also appeared for and cleared the Fellowship Exam of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons and was admitted as a Fellow in Feb 2003, adding to his credit a very distinguished post nominal.
Dr Das’s main interest is in the surgical area of Implant Dentistry. His special interests are root canal therapy, surgical extraction of wisdom teeth, complex oral rehabilitation of worn and / or decayed teeth, and cosmetic dentistry. He has additional training in root canal therapy, implants, and cosmetic dentistry.
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Dr Das is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons (FRACDS), and the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (FICOI). He is a Graduate of the Brener Implant Institute in Sydney.
Dr Das updates his knowledge and practical skills by attending various courses in Australia and overseas, such as the Advanced Implantology course for complex cases at the University in Vienna.
Dr Chitra’s main interest is in the Restorative phase of Implant Dentistry, Full Mouth Rehabilitation and Management of Pain related to Jaw and TMJ. She is also interested in Neuromuscular Dentistry. Neuromuscular Dentistry deals with problems associated with abnormalities associated with the bite position of the patient and associated pains in the neck, back and head. It involves understanding the abnormality by using various scans of the jaw and neck muscles and bringing it into a favourable position of occlusion.
She has an accreditation in Implant Dentistry from the Australian Society of Implant Dentistry, and is a member of the Australian Society of Implant Dentistry. Dr Chitra is a Graduate of the Las Vegas Institute of Advanced Dentistry, a Fellow of the International Congress of Oral Implantologists (FICOI), and a Member of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain.
Dr Chitra has done the Residency Programme under Dr Steven Olmos in Comprehensive Sleep and TMD studies.
Dr Chitra has also attended the Advanced courses at the Misch Implant Institute for the Restorative Phase.
She is continually attending other courses in these areas to ensure that her expertise and knowledge are second to none.
Chitra is also a proud mother of two lovely children Ashwati and Vineet who are aged 21 and 19 respectively doing Aerospace Engineering and Medicine respectively.
Chitra and Das always make it a priority to keep themselves updated with recent developments in Dentistry by meeting the requisites of the Australian Dental Association on Continuing Dental Education.
