We are on the first floor of AJ Tower in Dahanukar Colony, just off Paud Road. This page is the practical one: where we are, who we tend to see, when we are open, and what to expect if you have been putting a visit off.
The clinic is at No.5 First Floor, AJ Tower, above Irani Cafe, Dahanukar Colony, Kothrud, Pune 411038. The landmark most people navigate by is the Irani Cafe on the ground floor — we are directly above it, on the first floor. If you have reached Dahanukar Colony off Paud Road, you are less than a minute away.
If you are coming for the first time and cannot see the entrance, phone us from downstairs rather than circling. Somebody will come and get you.
No.5 First Floor, AJ Tower, above Irani Cafe, Dahanukar Colony, Kothrud, Pune 411038
10am–8pm, 6 days a week including Saturday and Sunday. Closed Wednesday.
+919309816336
We are open six days a week, weekends included, and closed on Wednesdayinstead. That is worth knowing if you have been putting off an appointment because you cannot take a weekday morning off — a Saturday or Sunday slot is a normal booking here, not a favour.
If something is painful today, phone rather than email. We will tell you honestly whether it needs seeing now or whether it can reasonably wait until a slot that suits you better.
Most people who come to us live within a few minutes of the clinic — Kothrud itself, and the Karve Nagar side. For anything urgent that is simply how it should be; nobody sensibly crosses Pune with an abscess, and a filling is not worth a forty-minute drive.
Orthodontic patients tend to be local for a different reason. Braces mean a short appointment roughly every month for a year and a half, so the cumulative travel matters far more than people expect when they start. If you are weighing up clinics for a treatment that long, distance deserves more weight than it usually gets.
The longer trips are the planned ones. People come from Bavdhan and Warje for implant work, and from Erandwane and Deccan for dentures and full mouth rehabilitation — treatments where you are choosing a clinician rather than a postcode, and where it is reasonable to travel a bit further to get the planning right.
Two things, and we would rather state them plainly than describe ourselves with adjectives.
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You can check that yourself in about ten seconds, which is the point of quoting it. We would rather point at a number a stranger wrote than one we made up about ourselves.
Complex work is planned by a specialist prosthodontist
Dr. Sahil Wathodkar holds an BDS, MDS (Prosthodontics) - Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune. A prosthodontist is a dentist who has completed three further years of training specifically in rebuilding and replacing teeth, which is what implants, dentures and full mouth work actually turn on. Everyday care is handled by Dr. Aishwarya Kulkarni Wathodkar, a general and family dentist, who also has training in endodontics.
Underneath both is the thing we care most about: you get shown the scan, told what we have found in plain words, and given the plan and the cost before anything begins. If you raise a hand mid-treatment, we stop. A lot of people who walk in here have avoided a dentist for years, and nobody is going to comment on it — if that is you, this is how we work with nervous patients.
Eight treatments, each with its own page explaining what is involved, how long it takes and what to expect afterwards.
Book a consultation, or just ask a question first — plenty of people message before they are ready to book, and that is fine.
