Winter has arrived and it’s getting cold! There’s frost on our lawns and snow on the mountains. On Thursday 18 June, Preventive Dentistry will participate in the Vinnies CEO Sleepout to raise money for the St Vincent de Paul Society to support Canberrans in need.

Our dentists Drs Steve Lising, Ann Duong, Scott Park, Deanne Carr and one of our hygienists Rachael Walton, will be sleeping rough just like the 116,000 homeless people around Australia. We hope that our one-night experience raises awareness about the bleak reality that homeless people endure night after night, day after day. [Read more…]

As a way of giving back to the community, both Dr Steve and Dr Scott will be participating in the Vinnies CEO Sleepout in Canberra this year.

As many of you may already know, Dr Steve has participated in the Sleepout several times. His first Sleepout was in 2013, when his daughter Hanna was still a baby. As well as being for a good cause, he naively thought the event would give him the opportunity to have a night of uninterrupted sleep away from a crying baby – boy was he in for a surprise!! [Read more…]