Tay Dental Surgery Pte Ltd is a dental practice at Bukit Timah Plaza built around a specific mission: making dental treatment, whether it's scaling and polishing, oral surgery or implant treatment, free of fear. The team includes ten dentists, among them an orthodontist and a dentist with advanced specialist training in prosthodontics, supported by a nursing team.
The practice's stated goals are to help patients overcome their fears about dentistry and accept treatment more comfortably, to raise dental awareness through patient education, and above all to deliver quality dental care. To manage patient anxiety, the team uses a range of strategies including relaxation techniques, anti-anxiety medications, heart rate monitoring, anaesthetic testing, and biofeedback to help patients monitor and control their fear levels during treatment.
Tay Dental Surgery treats a wide range of dental concerns, from tooth decay, gum disease and tooth pulp disease through to missing teeth, impacted wisdom teeth, crooked teeth and children's dental problems, alongside general dental phobia. CHAS, Pioneer Generation and Medisave are all accepted at the practice, and it is located at Bukit Timah Plaza, 1 Jalan Anak Bukit.
Tay Dental Surgery Pte Ltd was founded on a specific mission: to make every kind of dental treatment — from routine scaling and polishing through to oral surgery and implant work — free of fear. Rather than treating dental anxiety as an inconvenience to work around, the practice has built it into the core of how the team operates, aiming not just to treat teeth but to help patients genuinely overcome their apprehension about visiting the dentist.
The practice's approach to anxiety is notably structured. Strategies include relaxation techniques, the use of anti-anxiety medications where appropriate, monitoring patients' heart rates during treatment, conducting anaesthetic testing, and using biofeedback to help patients actively monitor and control their own fear levels. This isn't presented as an occasional accommodation but as a defined part of the practice's clinical approach — the team describes itself as understanding dental fear specifically, rather than simply being patient with nervous patients.
Tay Dental Surgery is staffed by ten dentists — Dr Tay Khoon Mei, Dr Elaine Lee Yiying, Dr Chen May-Lin, Dr Colin Ong, Dr Jasmine Cheong, Dr Shermin Lee, Dr Neil Tan, Dr Tan Ying Han, Dr Eunice Wu and Dr Renee Yee — supported by a nursing team. Among them, the practice includes an orthodontist and a dentist with advanced specialist training in prosthodontics, giving patients access to more specialised care without needing an external referral for braces or complex restorative work.
The practice's service list covers the full spectrum of general and specialist dentistry: consultations, gum disease management, restoring tooth structure, restoring missing teeth, orthodontic treatment (braces), root canal treatment, oral surgery, children's dentistry, aesthetic dentistry, and oral hygiene education. This range is matched by the specific dental concerns the practice addresses directly, including tooth decay, broken-down teeth, damaged tooth surfaces, discoloured teeth, gum disease, tooth pulp disease, missing teeth, impacted wisdom teeth, children's dental problems, crooked teeth, and dental phobia itself.
Beyond individual treatments, Tay Dental Surgery places real emphasis on patient education, aiming to increase dental awareness among all its patients rather than just delivering procedures. That focus connects directly back to the practice's broader mission — helping patients understand their own oral health well enough to feel more in control, and by extension, less anxious about future visits.
The practice accepts CHAS, Pioneer Generation and Medisave, giving eligible patients access to subsidies or the ability to use Medisave funds toward eligible dental treatments — a practical detail that can make ongoing dental care more accessible for many Singaporeans.
Tay Dental Surgery is located at Bukit Timah Plaza, 1 Jalan Anak Bukit #B1-11, Singapore. Weekday hours run from 8:30am, with the clinic closed for a lunch break between 1pm and 2pm before reopening until 6pm. On Saturdays, the practice is open from 8:30am to 5pm. Patients can reach the practice by phone, WhatsApp or email to arrange an appointment.
What sets Tay Dental Surgery apart is how deliberately its whole approach is built around dental fear — not as an afterthought, but as a defined clinical focus backed by real strategies like biofeedback and anaesthetic testing. Combined with a team that includes specialist orthodontic and prosthodontic training, a broad service range, and accepted government and Medisave schemes, the practice positions itself as a genuinely considered option for anyone who has put off dental care specifically because of anxiety about visiting the dentist.