Dr Stewart Denize

Four countries. One specialty.

Stewart grew up in New Zealand and trained as a dentist at the University of Otago, graduating in 1997. But general dentistry was always going to be a starting point, not the destination. After graduating, he worked as a dentist in Switzerland and the United Kingdom — gaining clinical breadth across different healthcare systems, patient populations, and treatment philosophies.

The move to Europe was driven by curiosity. Switzerland offered exposure to a healthcare system built on precision and prevention. The UK offered something else entirely — access to King’s College London, one of the world’s leading centres for orthodontic research and postgraduate training.

Stewart enrolled as a Specialist Registrar in the postgraduate orthodontic programme at King’s College, completing his Master’s in Orthodontics and Craniofacial Biology in 2013. He was awarded membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and his research earned several prizes and publications in international orthodontic literature.

He then moved to Australia — but not to Perth. Stewart became the sole specialist orthodontist in Albany, serving the entire Great Southern region of Western Australia for approximately a decade. Regional orthodontics is a different discipline: you see everything, you manage everything, and you build relationships with families across generations. Some of those patients followed him 400 kilometres to Claremont when he moved.

When Stewart and Kylie decided to open their own practice, they chose Claremont — and they chose to keep it small. Not a franchise. Not a group practice with rotating associates. A family-sized operation where the specialist sees every patient, personally, from first consultation through to completion.