The Dental Clinic

Dr Kristie-Lee Anning
Team Leader – Dental Programme

Kristie-Lee Anning is a Dental Practitioner working in private practice in Newcastle, NSW. Kristie-Lee completed her Bachelor of Dental Science at Charles Sturt University and has a further Bachelor of Nursing degree with a specilisation in oral and maxillofacial surgical assisting.

Kristie-Lee has a passion for working in rural and remote healthcare and as a result she has worked in various rural communities since graduation. Furthermore, Kristie-Lee has undertaken additional work as a volunteer dentist with the Royal Flying Doctor Service.

Kristie-Lee brings her enthusiasm and experience in rural and remote Australia to the role of Team Leader of the dental programme in Team Philippines. In her time with the Team Philippines programme, Kristie-Lee has introduced several successful components of dental practice to rural Laguna.

Kristie-Lee looks forward to expanding the programme with the purchase of invaluable dental equipment and the introduction of Charles Sturt and Sydney University students. Kristie-Lee hopes to develop a sustainable dental programme with less focus on relief of pain through extractions and more focus on restorations and prevention.

The dental team continues to work on treatment tooth decay as well as focusing on preventive strategies in our resource poor community where high levels of sugar intake are of a great health and dental concern. The team focuses on four broad areas:

• Dental health education for adults and children
• Distribution of toothbrushes and education on how to brush teeth
• Dental cleaning and examination
• Dental extractions and treatment to prevent further infective damage