Anthony Adaimy, dental prosthetist.

Qualifications and registration

Anthony holds a Diploma in Dental Technology, which qualified him as a dental technician, and an Advanced Diploma in Dental Technology (Sydney), which qualified him as a dental prosthetist.

Dental prosthetists are registered by the Dental Board of Australia through Ahpra. You can check his registration on the Ahpra register by searching his name.

What a dental prosthetist does

The Dental Board of Australia's scope of practice guideline lists flexible mouthguards for sport under the work of dental prosthetists. They also make, fit and repair dentures.

A dental prosthetist isn't a dentist. Check-ups, fillings and extractions are done by a dentist, and four general dentists practise at Dental Spot, in the same building as our lab.

Mobile Mouthguards and Dental Spot

Anthony started Mobile Mouthguards in 2009 to make custom guards for athletes, and to take the scanner to them: at training, at school or on the field.

A year later he opened Dental Spot at 7 The Strand, Croydon, with a lab bench and what was left of a 1950s dental chair. The lab is still there, upstairs. He works in it and with patients, and his team makes every guard there from a 3D scan of the wearer's teeth.

The clubs he works with

His lab makes guards for six NRL clubs: Melbourne Storm, Parramatta Eels, Wests Tigers, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and Cronulla Sharks, plus the Eels' and Sharks' NRLW sides. It also supplies junior league clubs, schools and fight gyms, and runs scan days at their grounds.