Excel Dental's Sembawang clinic sits at #01-09 of Sembawang MRT Station on Canberra Road, putting full-service dental care right at the heart of Singapore's north. The practice is built on three core values — care, quality, and integrity — and its stated aim is simple: great dental care at affordable prices, with payment kept flexible so it is 'the last thing on your mind'.
Patients can get almost everything done under one roof: regular check-ups, dental X-rays, scaling and polishing, fluoride, fillings and gum treatment; root canals, extractions and wisdom tooth surgery; crowns, bridges, dentures and dental implants; plus teeth whitening, straightening with braces or clear aligners, and veneers. Behind the chair, the Excel Dental team spans decades of experience, from implantology and oral and maxillofacial surgery to specialist orthodontics.
The 'Excel Dental Experience' starts with a friendly chat at the front desk and continues through personalised, patient-centred treatment plans — dental care, as the team puts it, from your first tooth to eating with your grandchildren. The clinic runs till late on weekdays and opens on weekends too.
Step off the train at Sembawang MRT and you are, quite literally, at the dentist's door. Excel Dental's Sembawang clinic occupies #01-09 of the MRT station building at 11 Canberra Road, which makes it one of the most convenient dental clinics in Singapore's north — no long walk from the station, no circling for parking, and an easy ride home afterwards.
The clinic's promise is put plainly on its own homepage: great dental care at affordable prices. Behind that sits a set of core values — care, quality, and integrity — which the team describes as guiding everything they do. Patient care is placed at the heart of the practice, and the goal is a dental visit that feels pleasant and seamless rather than something to brace yourself for.
Excel Dental offers what it calls a full range of dental services for your every need, organised into four broad areas.
General dentistry covers the essentials: regular check-ups, dental X-rays, scaling and polishing, topical fluoride, fillings, gum treatment, and retainers and mouthguards. Pain management handles the urgent work — tooth extractions, root canal treatment, surgical extractions and wisdom tooth surgery. Restorative and prosthodontic care rebuilds smiles with inlays and onlays, crowns, bridges, removable and implant-supported dentures, and dental implants. And for those thinking about their smile, aesthetic treatments include teeth whitening (with a take-home option), teeth straightening with metal braces or clear aligners, and veneers.
That breadth matters. A family can handle a child's check-up, a wisdom tooth removal and a parent's implant consultation at the same practice, with one set of records and one team that knows their history.
The Excel Dental team brings deep and varied experience. Dr Ng Jet Wei has close to 25 years in dentistry, holds a Certificate of Implantology from the University of Frankfurt and previously served as Honorary Secretary General of the Singapore Dental Association. Dr Bertrand Chew is an accredited Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon who furthered his implantology training at UCLA and has consulted at several of Singapore's hospitals. Dr Leong Se Mean is a registered specialist orthodontist who trained at King's College London and treats both children and adults.
They are joined by a younger generation of dentists — among them Dr Rubin Foong, a National Dental Centre alumnus and NDCS Smile Award recipient, and Dr Colin Lam, whose background spans polyclinics, hospital dentistry and the care of dental-phobic patients — reflecting the clinic's blend of capability and a gentle chairside manner.
The clinic calls its approach the Excel Dental Experience, and it begins before any treatment does: with a friendly chat with the team. Technology plays its part — the practice points to state-of-the-art tools — but equal emphasis is placed on showing care 'from our hearts', personalising every treatment plan and involving patients in their own oral health journeys.
The care is deliberately family-wide, too. Excel Dental describes its work as spanning 'from your first tooth to eating with your grandchildren', a nod to treating everyone from children to seniors.
Hours are generous: 9am to 9pm from Monday to Friday, and 10am to 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays, with closures on public holidays. Payment is designed to be flexible — the clinic accepts Visa, Mastercard and NETS, and works with schemes and insurers including Medisave, CHAS, Pioneer Generation, Baby Bonus and AIA, so it is worth asking the front desk what applies to you.
Appointments can be made through the website's booking page or by contacting the front desk, including via WhatsApp. Excel Dental also runs clinics at Downtown East (E!Avenue, Pasir Ris) and Hougang should another location suit you better — but for anyone living or working around Sembawang, it is hard to beat a full-service dental clinic that is literally inside your MRT station.