Steve Atkin

BDSC MDSC(QLD)

Dr Steve Atkin joined Ethos in 2002. Steve is a Redcliffe boy, who graduated as a dentist from the University of Queensland in 1984. He moved to Thursday Island, where he worked at the local hospital and set up the School Dental Service throughout the Torres Strait.

Steve qualified as an orthodontist in 1996, and has continued his work with children through the School Dental Service in Brisbane. His passion is helping patients with special needs, particularly cleft lip and palate. He participates in cleft palate clinics at the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital, and is a member of the Queensland Craniofacial Centre at the Mater Children’s Hospital.

Steve is the Visiting Dental Specialist at the University of Queensland’s School of Dentistry, where he gives lectures to undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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