The go-to for dental education and consulting in Australia.
Not what you expect.
Exactly what you need.
There is a version of infection prevention training that hands your team a checklist and calls it done.
Niche Dental is not that.
We teach dental teams how to think critically and make good decisions. Infection prevention is a belief system built on trust, and our approach respects that. Everything we do is underpinned by foundational principles that support best practice within the regulatory framework dental teams operate in.
Every course, every advisory engagement, and every conversation that comes out of Niche Dental starts here. With the right thinking, the right principles, and a genuine respect for what infection prevention actually means in practice.
What a few of the 500+ practices say
“This course gave us a fresh and practical perspective on how to approach practice policies, standards, and legal requirements. Thanks for a really valuable and engaging day!”
Shane Chambers
Dental Prosthetist
Cairns
“I’ve attended many presentations mostly on infection control and Niche Dental has by far been the most interesting and engaging one yet.”
Shannon
Practice Manager
Cairns
“What a well presented, informative, relevant and engaging course. Exceeded my expectations.”
Dr Gary Verdickt
Endodontist
Sutherland
What we do.
Niche Dental works with dental teams and organisations across Australia on infection prevention and control, radiation safety, clinical governance, quality and safety, and accreditation support.
Why people come to us.
Something has usually prompted the call.
Kylie’s first question is always the same: What has prompted you to reach out?
These are the right reasons.
And they are what Niche Dental is built for.
Founded by Kylie Robb.
Twenty years of deliberate progression.
Twenty years in dentistry: junior assistant to practice manager, then a decade at ADA NSW in advisory and leadership roles.
It started on the floor.
Kylie began as a junior dental assistant in 2002 and worked through every clinical role in a practice. Since 2015 she has presented over 300 infection control courses and completed more than 500 onsite reviews across Australia. Her advisory work covers clinical governance and quality and safety, including accreditation against the National Safety and Quality Primary and Community Healthcare Standards.
From the floor to the world stage.
Kylie is a casual academic at the University of Sydney School of Dentistry and a past non-executive director of the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control. She was consultant advisor on dental hand hygiene to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care and an invited speaker for the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office.
There is nobody else like her in Australia.
Kylie is a Fellow of the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control and a Credentialled Infection Control Professional, Advanced. She has a Master of Health Services Management (Clinical Leadership) from UTS, a Postgraduate Certificate in Infection Prevention and Control from Griffith University and a Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Business from the University of Cambridge.
Founded by Kylie Robb.
Twenty years of deliberate progression.
Junior assistant to senior assistant, clinical coordinator, clinical operations manager, practice manager. Then to the Australian Dental Association, leading the work to get the first cohort of dental practices through accreditation, where more than half of the requirements centred on infection prevention and control in dentistry.
It started on the floor.
Kylie started as a junior dental assistant in 2002. Not a natural, by her own account. Wrong instruments, wrong words, the occasional poorly timed reaction to something she was not expecting.
The shift came when she was assigned to work alongside a new graduate dentist navigating the same learning curve at the same time. Two people figuring out how to do the work with purpose and intention, building something together from the ground up. That experience is where the Niche Dental philosophy took shape, long before the business existed.
From the floor to the world stage.
Advisory roles for the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. An academic appointment at the University of Sydney’s School of Dentistry. A non-executive directorship at the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control during the COVID-19 pandemic. Presenting on dental infection prevention for the World Health Organization.
There is nobody else like her in Australia.
Kylie is a dental infection prevention specialist in the truest sense of the phrase. Not because of the title, but because of what built it. More than ten years presenting professionally on infection control, a profile built on trust, and a reputation across the dental profession that has never needed to announce itself.
Bring Kylie to your next event.
Kylie has presented across Australia and internationally.
Topics include:
- Infection prevention and control in dentistry
- Dental safety leadership and clinical governance
- First principles thinking for dental teams
- Mandatory training and accreditation readiness
- Building clinical excellence across dental organisations
- Sustainability in dental practice
If you are looking for a speaker who brings genuine expertise, a disarming presence, and practical guidance your audience can use the same day, get in touch.
Our credentials.
500+
Dental practices visited
across Australia
15,000
Dental team
members reached
7
years presenting
ADA NSW CPD’s most
attended course
ADANSW
past Head of Practice
Services, (Infection Control
and accreditation)
ACSQHC
Consultant Advisor for
dental hand hygiene for
the Australian Commission
on Safety and Quality in
Health Care
ACIPC
past Non-Executive
Director at the
Australasian College
for Infection Prevention
and Control
USyd
Casual Academic for the
University of Sydney’s
School of Dentistry
WHO
Invited speaker for
World Health
Organization Western
Pacific Regional Office
What it feels like to work with us.
Confidence in infection prevention comes from understanding what each control is for, who it protects and what patients and regulators expect of the practice. Niche Dental teaches that first, then the principles and evidence behind it, so the team can reason through situations a checklist does not cover.
People who have worked with Kylie tend to use the same words:
- Anchored
- Invigorated
- Capable
- Surprisingly enjoyable
Teams leave with a system for infection prevention and control in dentistry that holds up through:
- Workforce changes and team turnover
- New team members finding their feet
- The harder questions that do not always have a simple answer
Dental safety leadership looks like this in practice: a team that knows exactly where they stand, works confidently within the regulatory framework, and has made the standard their own.
Not what they signed up for. Better.
Independent, every time.
Niche Dental has no commercial arrangements with product or equipment suppliers. Advice is about your practice, your team and your obligations, and nothing else.
Let’s get it sorted.
If you’re building consistency within a practice team, looking for training that supports dental assistants on the job, or working through a clinical governance challenge at an organisational level, we’re ready to help.