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  "title": "Dr Steven Smith",
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  "description": "Specialist Orthodontist BDSc (Hons) (Qld) · MDSc — Orthodontics (Qld)",
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  "content": "## Collins Street Specialist Centre — Dr Steven Smith\n**Specialist Orthodontist**\nBDSc (Hons) (Qld) · MDSc — Orthodontics (Qld)\n\n---\n\n## Clinical expertise\n\nCollins Street Specialist Centre welcomes Dr Steven Smith, a specialist orthodontist who completed both his undergraduate and specialist training at the University of Queensland. UQ is widely regarded as one of Australia's leading dental schools, and its specialist orthodontic programme carries a strong reputation across the profession. Dr Smith holds an honours-level undergraduate degree in dental science and a dedicated specialist Master's in orthodontics — a combination that reflects serious, sustained academic investment in the field.\n\nAs a registered specialist orthodontist, Dr Smith treats patients across all age groups. His clinical work covers:\n\n- Comprehensive orthodontic assessment and individualised treatment planning\n- Conventional metal and ceramic fixed appliances for children, adolescents, and adults\n- Clear aligner therapy, including Invisalign\n- Adult orthodontics, including pre-prosthetic alignment, functional correction, and aesthetic improvement\n- Management of malocclusion in its various forms — overbite, underbite, crossbite, and dental crowding\n- Early interceptive orthodontics for growing patients, where timely treatment can meaningfully shape developing dentofacial structures\n- Coordinated care within multidisciplinary teams, working alongside surgical and restorative specialists for patients whose needs go beyond orthodontics alone\n\nFor patients and referring practitioners, it's worth understanding what specialist orthodontic training actually involves. The UQ MDSc Orthodontics is a full specialist degree, not a short course or certificate. It prepares graduates to assess and manage the complete range of orthodontic presentations, including complex skeletal discrepancies and cases requiring close collaboration with oral and maxillofacial surgeons, periodontists, and prosthodontists. When a patient sees a specialist orthodontist, they're being treated by a clinician whose training was specifically and extensively focused on this field.\n\n---\n\n## Training pathway\n\nDr Smith began his dental education with a Bachelor of Dental Science with Honours at the University of Queensland — an undergraduate degree that already signals strong academic performance within a competitive programme. He later returned to UQ to complete a Master of Dental Science in Orthodontics (MDSc Ortho), the specialist qualification recognising advanced expertise in orthodontic diagnosis, treatment planning, biomechanics, and clinical management across a wide range of presentations.\n\nThe honours distinction at undergraduate level is worth noting. It reflects performance above standard curriculum completion, which is a useful foundation for specialist training given the depth of knowledge and clinical reasoning that specialist practice demands.\n\nDr Smith's academic record reflects a career built on careful, sustained investment in clinical excellence from the outset.\n\n---\n\n## At Collins Street Specialist Centre\n\nDr Smith joined the specialist team at Collins Street Specialist Centre in 2026, extending the practice's orthodontic capacity within one of Melbourne CBD's most established and comprehensive specialist dental environments. Collins Street Specialist Centre brings together a range of dental specialists under one roof, which makes coordinated care genuinely practical for patients with complex or multidisciplinary needs — and for the referring practitioners who entrust their patients to the centre's care.\n\nDr Smith practises as part of the Orthodontics service at Collins Street Specialist Centre, located at Level 12 & Tower, Manchester Unity Building, 220 Collins Street, Melbourne CBD.\n\nNo referral is needed to arrange a consultation with Dr Smith, though referrals from general dentists and other dental specialists are warmly welcomed and carefully attended to. To enquire about availability or discuss an orthodontic concern, contact the practice directly on **(03) 9650 2726**.\n\nAs with all registered specialists in Australia, Dr Smith's credentials are independently verifiable through the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) public register — a straightforward step that patients and referring practitioners are always encouraged to take when confirming specialist registration status.\n\n---\n\n> **Content note:** Dr Smith joined the Collins Street Specialist Centre team in 2026. A full clinical biography — including research interests, teaching involvement, areas of special clinical interest, and professional memberships — is currently in preparation. **Please contact Dr Smith's team directly to obtain a complete professional biography for publication or referral purposes.**\n\n---",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-07-06T07:21:31.047222+00:00Z",
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    "clear aligner therapy",
    "malocclusion correction",
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