Bryanston has excellent orthodontists. What it does not have much of is fee transparency, and for many families that is the real obstacle: not whether superb treatment exists nearby, but whether anyone will say what it costs before you are sitting in the chair.
Ten minutes north, in Lonehill, there is a specialist practice that publishes its fees.
Let us be precise, because precision is the point. Dr Rashid Essop is a registered specialist orthodontist, HPCSA DP0093483, with the full four years of specialist training, membership of the American Association of Orthodontists and the World Federation of Orthodontists, and a conservative treatment philosophy. Nothing about the clinical offer here is the budget version. This is the same profession Bryanston’s premium practices belong to.
The difference is a decision about money. This practice charges the Discovery Health specialist tariff, the benchmark rate for specialist care, and puts its fee ranges where you can read them before you ever phone us: consultation R680, full records and planning R4 240, treatment ranges published, interest-free payment plans of 30% down and 12 to 20 months on the balance.
Plenty of families can comfortably pay more than that for the same speciality, and some prefer to. For everyone else, there is us.
From most of Bryanston you reach us in about ten minutes: Winnie Mandela Drive or Main Road north, and we are beside the Lonehill Shopping Centre in the Lonehill Office Park, with free parking and no boom.
The practice is deliberately family friendly: teenagers in the afternoons, the age 7 checks in the mornings, adults fitted around work, and every case planned personally by the specialist.
At Lonehill Orthodontics, minutes north of Bryanston, a specialist consultation is R680, full records and treatment planning R4 240, and comprehensive adult treatment ranges from R37 000 to R60 000, at the Discovery Health specialist tariff with interest-free payment plans.
Fees vary between specialist practices for reasons that have little to do with clinical quality: location, premises, philosophy about transparency. What matters is that a registered specialist diagnoses and plans your case. Verify any practitioner, including ours, on the HPCSA register.
Often, yes, particularly where quotes differ widely or extractions are proposed. A second consultation is a small cost against a two-year treatment, and we welcome patients who arrive holding another practice’s quote.
Even if you are already holding a quote, a consultation here costs R680 and comes with a specialist’s honest reading of your case. Compare, then choose in peace.