I discovered my passion for orthodontics. My mentor and colleague Dr Rudolf Matheis introduced me to dentistry when I was still in my teens. I have been working with him and his daughter, Dr Victoria Matheis, at their practice in Linz for many years now, where I took over the health insurance contract for orthodontics in 2015. Since 2023, Austria has had a new title, ‘Specialist Dentist for Orthodontics’, which I have been delighted to hold since December 2023.
I have been working in Vienna since around 2012. Together with my colleagues, we cover virtually all specialist areas in our joint practice on Mariahilferstraße and offer comprehensive dental care under one roof.
Every day, we encounter patients with very different needs: some are so anxious that even making an appointment is a major hurdle. Others are sitting in a dentist's chair for the first time in their lives. In these cases, it is important to proceed particularly slowly and carefully – anxious patients are very close to my heart, as are children.
In the course of my career, I have completed countless training and further education courses and spent many hours in a wide variety of practices at home and abroad. For four years, I treated patients on a weekly basis at the orthodontic department of the Dr. W. Brenner Institute in Vienna under senior consultant Dr. Thomas Francan.
Further training with Dr. Guido Sampermans (Maastricht) on segment bow technique and straight wire appliances, with Prof. Martin Richter (Salzburg) and training in the Multiloop Edgewise Appliance Method under Prof. Sadao Sato (Japan) and Prof. Rudolf Slavicek (Vienna) enable me to treat even more complex cases such as open bites, asymmetries or Class III situations, often without surgical intervention.