Qualifications

• Bachelor Health Science (Dentistry)- Latrobe University
• Masters of Dentistry– Latrobe University
• Post Graduate Diploma Dental Sleep Medicine – University of Western Australia
• Fellowship Dental Sleep Medicine

Dr Damian Teo is a holistic dentist who has been exclusively treating patients for TMD, Bruxism and Sleep disorders for the last 10 years.

Damian is passionate about looking “beyond the mouth” and treating the body as a whole. He believes dentists play an important role in being able to recognise airway/breathing issues, sleeping problems, and craniofacial pain (such as headaches, neck pain, and TMD). Damian first gained deeper knowledge and understanding of TMD, craniofacial pain, sleep medicine, and airways by completing the TMD & Sleep mini residency program by Dr. Steven Olmos in 2013.

This led to Damian working in Darwin’s first official TMJ & Sleep Therapy Centre in 2014, where he then focused his practice to treating patients for snoring, sleep apnea, bruxism and TMD. He pursued further education in the field of sleep medicine and achieved his Post Graduate Diploma in Dental Sleep Medicine with the University of Western Australia in 2016, and Fellowship in Dental Sleep Medicine in 2024.

Over the years, Damian completed various mini-residency programs covering TMD, craniofacial pain, sleep medicine, orofacial myology and orthodontics with Dr Derek Mahony, Dr Jeffrey Okeson, Dr Tony Ancell and Dr Jamison Spencer.
Damian understands the value in working with skilled allied health practitioners outside of dentistry and joined Melbourne TMJ & Facial Pain Centre™ in Jan 2019

Damian regularly lectures, and holds an annual TMD & Sleep Mini Residency in Australia and Malaysia, teaching practitioners from around the world, how to diagnose and manage TMD, OSA and bruxism.

He is also currently studying medical acupuncture with the Australian Medical Acupuncture College (AMAC). He is passionate in spreading the knowledge that dentists can help one’s health and quality of life “beyond the mouth.”