Verdant Dental - Suite 1, Level 1, 326 Keilor Road Niddrie

Hey everyone!

I can't believe how long it's been since I even remembered having this blog. I do recall being totally building-obsessed when we first started this journey back in... 2009?

Clearly the results of that obsession have been well documented here on this blog. Daily drive-bys, and in-depth focus on the details that makes a house a home. We've had hundreds of comments and we hope our replies have helped you on your home building journey!

But this post marks a bit of a milestone... Tina and I have been massively busy obsessing about another project for the last few months, and this post is the reveal!

http://www.verdantdental.com.au

https://www.facebook.com/VerdantDental

Telephone: (03) 9379 3736

I've been working with Dr Joseph Versace for 12 years, and for the last 8 years at our current location at Suite 1, Level 1, 326 Keilor Road, Niddrie VIC 3042. We've had an amazingly loyal patient base, and we perform general, family, cosmetic and emergency dentistry to the inner west area. 

Mostly our patients come to us from Essendon, Aberfeldie, Moonee Ponds, Strathmore, Niddrie, Keilor, Greenvale, Airport West etc, but some of our clients are so loyal they fly in from interstate to see us!

We also do a lot of teaching of postgraduate dental students for The University of Melbourne Dental School. Dr Versace has decided to do more teaching and to step back from private practice, so we (Tim & Tina) have decided to take on the privilege and responsibility of operating the practice - now known as Verdant Dental.

We have a fantastic team around us including dentists Dr Christina Romanella, Dr Alpa Lodhiya and dental prosthetist Mr Jeremy Kearns. All the team are personal friends of mine, and I can vouch for their kindness, care and honest nature.

Some of you have been following this blog for years (or years ago) - and I hope that you've benefited from the effort and dedication we've put into this blog. We've put even more effort into Verdant Dental, to make sure it upholds the ethics, honesty and genuine relationships that have been a tradition since Dr Versace commenced the practice back in the 1980s.

Should you be in the area, or have friends or family nearby, we welcome you to Verdant Dental and promise that you'll have the best experience ever! You can ask us any questions you want, and you'll get an expert, honest and open answer.

Please visit our website at http://www.verdantdental.com.au, or you can email us to make an appointment enquiry at smile@verdantdental.com.au, or even the traditional way of calling us at (03) 9379 3736!

And you never know - I might even keep updating this blog for home building related stuff too!

Signing off for now....

Dr Tim Wenas

Verdant Dental

Suite 1, Level 1, 326 Keilor Road, Niddrie VIC 3042

Broadband - naughty Optus! NBN failboat.

So Optus is getting a slap on the wrist for advertising "Unlimited" broadband - with some limits.

ZDNet reporting on Optus misleading advertising

The analogue equivalent here is of a restaurant advertising an "All You Can Eat" seafood buffet for $29.95 - but after the first plate of food, you're only allowed to have dry crackers and water. Naughty Optus (but then again, they're not alone in misleading advertising!)

When we were planning the house, it's wired for cable broadband, but we decided to go with ADSL2+. Mainly because there's only two players in cable broadband in our area, Tel$tra and Optus, and a duopoly is no better than a monopoly. Oh well - the cable provision could always be used for Pay TV, though I reckon that's an absolute waste of time & money.

At first I wanted TPG, but all their nodes were full in our area, so we went with iiNet. Slightly more expensive, but probably the best customer service I've ever experienced, so two thumbs up for them!


And is anyone else wondering how much more Australia can screw itself up by building the NBN? Let's invest bazillions of dollars into a "broadband" network that's outdated and overpriced even before it gets started. Sending data through bits of wire and glass is as outdated as the landline phone. Plus the argument that Australia is a bigger country with less population density compared to everywhere else is a fallacious argument - population centres are dense and localised. As usual, Stephen Conroy shows how out of touch with reality he is by stating Australia's population density is 2.7/square km - even a Year 7 student knows that stating an average value is meaningless, because the average human has one boob and one ball. Myki fiasco x 10,000.

T&T