About

Teeth in Place is a portable, private dental service in the Bendigo region - providing safe, evidence based, professional dental care direct to the home or residential aged care facility. 

Offering onsite assessment, prevention care and minimally invasive treatment options, Teeth in Place is ideal for people with mobility impairment, experiencing cognitive decline, or anyone just having trouble leaving the house!

Teeth In Place Bendigo - Kelsey Barker

Meet Kelsey…

Dr Kelsey Barker is a fully qualified, AHPRA registered general dentist, living and working with her young family in the Bendigo/Castlemaine region, Australia.

Through her work in private practice, public dentistry and visiting aged care facilities, Kelsey has seen many patients present with advanced dental disease, in pain, and with severe infections due to a delay and difficulty in accessing a dentist once independence is reduced.

We all know that dental problems can be extremely debilitating, affecting our ability to eat, sleep, speak and feel comfortable and confident in social situations. Dental disease is also one of the most easily preventable diseases - with a healthy diet, quality home cleaning and routine professional care. 

Teeth in Place takes dental care directly to the patient, offering not just symptomatic relief, but comprehensive preventative dental care tailored to the individual.

  • AHPRA registration: DEN0001856754

    Bachelor Health Sciences in Dentistry/Master of Dentistry - La Trobe University, Bendigo, 2013

    Membership in General Dental Practice (MRACDS GDP) - Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons, 2017

  • Attended the FDI World Dental Federation Congress - 2023

    Dementia Training Australia - 2024

    • The View from Here: Skills in Aged and Community and Dementia Care

    • Creating supportive environments for people living with dementia

  • Australian Dental Association Member 

    Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons

    • Mentor for the MRACDS program - 2020 - present.

    • Awarded the Kenneth J.G Sutherland Award (for the candidate who has demonstrated overall excellence in the MRACDS General Dental Practice programme), 2017

    First Aid, Basic Life Support and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Certificates

    Victorian Radiation Licence

    Working with Children Check

    National Police Check 

    Medical Indemnity and Public Liability Insurance

Our mission is to:

Educate

To empower patients and their care networks to maintain their own oral health - contributing to oral comfort, quality of life, social confidence and to prevent and minimise the systemic complications of oral disease.

Provide

For people of all ages with limited mobility (due to physical, mental, social, cultural or other barriers) an option to receive evidence based, professional quality, compassionate, person-centred dental care, tailored to their specific requirements, in their home or place of residence

Support

We aid aging in place by respecting individuals and individual autonomy, and by maintaining and continuing links to the local community and local services.

What can we do for you?

Check out our Services page to learn how we can assist you.