North York, Toronto, Ontario
Airway, bite and jaw — not just teeth.
A general and family dental practice at Keele and Lawrence, led by Dr. Catherine Ng, D.D.S. A certified Myobrace provider, with myofunctional therapy, orthodontic appliances and TMJ care alongside everyday dentistry.
Start here
Whatever brought you to this page.
Six routes through the site, depending on whether you are booking, worried about something right now, or just reading.
Request an appointment
Tell us what you need and when suits, in four short steps.
OpenDental emergencies
What to do right now, and how to tell urgent from dangerous.
OpenPatient guides
Plain-language reading on prevention, anxiety, children and pain.
OpenEvery question, searchable
Around forty questions in one place, filtered as you type.
OpenFees and insurance
How Ontario pricing, the fee guide and the CDCP actually work.
OpenFinding the practice
Address, map, hours and the things worth knowing before you set off.
OpenTreatments
Six areas of care, explained plainly.
Most of what this practice does is ordinary general dentistry. Some of it is not: myofunctional therapy and appliance-based orthodontics treat how a mouth works rather than only how it looks, and that is unusual in a neighbourhood practice. These pages explain both, without jargon.
General & Family Dentistry
The routine care that prevents most of the rest.
Read more 02Preventive Care
The cheapest dentistry is the treatment you never need.
Read more 03Myobrace & Myofunctional Therapy
Treating the habits behind crooked teeth, not only the teeth.
Read more 04Orthodontic Appliances
Removable appliances, and what they can and cannot do.
Read more 05TMJ & Jaw Pain
Clicking, aching and difficulty opening.
Read more 06Emergency Care & Extractions
When something has gone wrong today.
Read moreThe practice
A practice on the corner.
Keele Lawrence Dental sits at the intersection the neighbourhood is named for. It is a single-dentist practice — Dr. Catherine Ng, D.D.S. — doing general and family dentistry for the streets around it.
What sets the treatment list apart is the myofunctional side. The practice is listed as a certified Myobrace provider in the manufacturer's own practitioner directory, and publishes orthodontic appliances, TMJ and jaw-pain treatment and myofunctional therapy alongside routine care. Those treat the way a mouth breathes, swallows and closes — which is a different question from whether a tooth needs filling.
Straight teeth are the result. How a mouth breathes and closes is the cause.
Patient guides
Worth reading before you come in.
Written to be useful rather than to fill a page. No advice here replaces being examined, and each one says so.
If you are frightened of the dentist
Dental anxiety is common enough that practices deal with it constantly. Saying so out loud is the single thing that changes an appointment most.
4 minute readPreventionBrushing and flossing, without the sermon
Almost all of the advice is the same advice. These are the parts that actually change outcomes, and the ones most people get wrong.
5 minute readRoutine careWhat a check-up is actually looking for
A dental examination is not a quick glance at your teeth. Most of it is looking for things you cannot feel yet.
4 minute readQuestions people ask first
Where is the practice?
2392 Keele Street, North York, Toronto — at the Keele and Lawrence intersection. Call 416-241-5888.
What are the opening hours?
Directory listings agree the practice is open Monday to Thursday and Saturday and closed Friday and Sunday, but they disagree on the closing time. Rather than guess, this site publishes no times. Please call 416-241-5888.
What is Myobrace?
An appliance-based system aimed at the habits behind crooked teeth — mouth breathing, tongue posture and swallowing pattern — rather than only straightening the teeth themselves. This practice is listed as a certified provider in Myobrace's own practitioner directory.
Do you treat jaw pain and clicking?
TMJ and TMD treatment is among the services the practice publishes. Whether a particular case is treated here or referred on depends on the assessment.
Are you taking new patients?
Availability changes. Please call and ask — the practice is the only reliable source on this, and this site makes no claim either way.
Arrange an appointment
Phone is the fastest way to reach the practice. The request form is here if it is easier than calling.