About Us

Welcome to Dental Icon, Halifax’s newest destination for compassionate, comprehensive dental care. Our modern clinic was founded with a simple mission: to provide high-quality, private dentistry in a warm and welcoming environment where every patient feels at home.

Private Dentist Halifax

Dr Gayathiri Balasubramaniam

BDS, MJDF RCS, Dip Rest RCS, MSC Clin dent, FFGDP (UK), Dip in Hypnotherapy

Dentist - GDC No. 155763

Multi Award-Winning Dentist

Gaya is a general dentist with Special interest in cosmetic dentistry and Dental Implants. After completing BDS in 2004, she continued her postgraduate training and gained Membership of Faculty of General Dental practitioners awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons in 2010.

Her keen interest in restorative dentistry encouraged her to gain her Diploma in Restorative Dentistry from Manchester in 2012 and her MSc in Clinical dentistry from Leeds in 2014. She was awarded with Fellowship in Clinical Dentistry by FGDP in 2015 and a Certificate in Healthcare Education from UCLAN in 2016. She has special interest in teaching and is an experienced Vocational Trainer in Foundation Training Scheme in Yorkshire as well as she has also been a Fellowship Programme Trainer and Assessor.

Gaya has special interest in cosmetic and restorative dentistry as well as in short-term orthodontics. She has over 15 years’ experience in cosmetic dental treatments and smile makeovers. She is a ‘Six Months Smiles’ short-term orthodontics provider and a Gold lnvisalign clear aligner provider. She has years of experience in composite and ceramic smile makeovers.

She is very experienced in placing and restoring single and multiple dental implants and full mouth rehabilitations using all-on-4 implants. She now focusses mainly in providing cosmetic dental treatments and dental implants.

She is highly experienced in treating nervous patients. She has recently won the very prestigious ‘Best Patient Care – North East’ award in Dentistry awards in 2025. She strongly believes that everyone deserves a great smile and her promise to patients is to make the dental experience as pleasant as possible and work in their best interest. She is trained in IV sedation and has been able to treat nervous and phobic patients effectively under IV sedation. She is also a qualified clinical hypnotherapist and has been successful in treating many patients with severe dental phobia very efficiently. She has also treated and helped her patients deal with all types of anxiety, depression, phobias and addictions.

Gaya is also trained and experienced in Facial Aesthetics treatments such as anti-wrinkle treatments, lip fillers and cheek fillers, and polynucleotides treatment.

She is a multi-award winning dentist and some of the awards she has won are:

  • Awarded ‘Highly Commended for Best Patient Care in the North-East England’ – Dentistry Awards 2021
  • Awarded ‘Highly Commended for Best Clinical Case for Multiple Implants’ – Clinical Dentistry Awards 2023
  • Finalist for ‘Dentist of the Year 2024’ – Dental Probe
  • Finalist in multiple categories in Dental Implants and Restorative Treatments – Dentistry and Private Dentistry Awards 2022, 2023, 2024
  • One of the 5 Finalist for ‘Dentist of the Year 2025’ – Dental Probe
  • Winner Of Best Patient Care (North East) – Dentistry Awards 2025

Outside work she enjoys performing dance and playing musical instruments. She loves travelling with her family and is a passionate globe trotter.

State Of The Art
Dental Practice

Multi Award-Winning Dentist

Treatments We Offer

Treatments At The Dental Icon

We offer a wide range of dental treatments, including:

Children's Dentistry

Emergency Dentist

Dental Hygiene

White Fillings

Composite Bonding

Porcelain Veneers

Teeth Whitening

Smile Makeovers

Invisalign

Dental Implants

Crowns

Dentures

Root Canal

Fixed Braces

Tooth Extraction

Facial Aesthetics

Dental Check Up

Nervous Patients

Hypnotherapy

All On 4 Implants

Before & After Smile Gallery

Dr Gaya has been transforming smiles across Yorkshire for the past two decades.

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Opening Hours

Monday to Friday:  8.30am – 5.30pm
Saturday: By Appoitment Only
Sunday:  Closed
Late Evening Appointments Available

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