About Us
Bringing affordable, timely and high quality dentistry to rural and remote communities.
Project Outback Dental is a private mobile dental practice servicing Northwest Outback Queensland.
Driving inland via the Overlander's way, Outback communities can trust us in bringing much needed quality, timely and affordable dental services without having to travel hours to see a dentist.
Your POD Principal Dentist
Dr Garret L Robles
Doctor of Dental Medicine , Postgraduate Certificate in Paediatric Dentistry
Dr Robles had 15 years of clinical private practice and university teaching experience in Paediatric Dentistry and Community Dentistry before immigrating to Australia. On completion of his ADC examinations, he pursued a private practice in Townsville before becoming Senior Lecturer in Clinical Dentistry and Dentist-in-Charge of JCUDental Townsville - supervising 5th year students on clinical placement from 2014-2015.
Recognising the challenges in providing much needed dental services to rural and remote communities, Dr Robles established his own company Project Outback Dental (POD)® Pty Ltd. POD is the first and so far the only private practice in North Queensland to have its own mobile dental van, a compact wheelchair-based recliner and bariatric dental chair, and a fully self-contained mobile dental chair and portable dental delivery cart system. Such specialised equipment allows Dr Robles to deliver dental services in patients’ homes, schools, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island rural communities, cattle stations, and aged care facilities. His goal is to establish a sustainable business model for private dental practices that will allow the delivery of premium but affordable dental services to people experiencing physical, geographical, and economic difficulties in obtaining dental care.
His passion for indigenous oral health also led Dr Robles to collaborate with the Townsville Aboriginal and Islander Health Service (TAIHS) in delivering dental services to its dental unit in Townsville and outreach clinics. A more recent endeavour is POD's delivery of regular dental services to ATSI boarding school residents in North Queensland - Saint Patrich's College, St Teresa's College Abergowrie and the NRL Cownboys House.
Dr Robles later established MYTOOTHDOCTOR™ Townsville Paediatric Dentistry, POD’s ‘dental home’ in Townsville for all its Outback clients. MYTOOTHDOCTOR™ surgeries are GP practice-based at convenient locations in Townsville and Home Hill.
He is also affiliated with the Mater Hospital where he performs dental rehabilitation under general anaesthetic on children and patients with special needs.
