Dr Essop picked Lonehill deliberately, and not for the rent. It sits at the centre of the northern suburbs with good arterials running in from every direction, which means a specialist practice here is genuinely reachable from a surprisingly wide arc of Johannesburg.
Orthodontics is not one appointment. It is a visit every four to six weeks for 18 to 24 months, somewhere between fifteen and twenty trips before your retainer goes in. A practice that is convenient is a practice you actually keep appointments at, and treatment that runs to schedule finishes on time.
So the geography matters. Lonehill sits between the main north-south routes, reachable from both sides of Winnie Mandela Drive (formerly William Nicol), with Witkoppen Road and Main Road feeding in. We are in the Lonehill Office Park, an offshoot of the Lonehill Shopping Centre, which means everybody already knows where it is.
Parking is free, there is no boom and no access control, and you can be out of the car and into reception in under a minute.
Home ground. Lonehill is part of Fourways, and most of the practice lives within a few minutes of the door.
A convenient specialist option ten minutes west, which is why Sunninghill and Rivonia families make up one of our largest communities.
Excellent orthodontists nearby, fewer publishing their fees. Ten minutes north gets you a specialist practice that does.
Sandton runs a long way north of the skyline. For the half that goes home above the highway, we are the convenient one.
The estates have everything inside the boom except an orthodontist. We are the nearest one, minutes south.
An easier drive than it looks on a map, because you are travelling across the traffic rather than into it.
If your suburb is not named, it almost certainly still works. Send us a message and we will tell you honestly how the trip looks from your side.
Ask about your tripA registered specialist orthodontist, HPCSA DP0093483, who examines, scans, diagnoses and plans every case personally.
The Discovery Health specialist tariff, interest-free payment plans, and the numbers on the fees page rather than behind an enquiry form.
Appointments from 08:00, and afternoon slots protected for school-age patients.
A conversation, an examination and a straight answer. It commits you to nothing.