Dr. Ghazala Zaid, DMD

Every practice takes its character from the person leading it. At Midland Dental Center, that person is Dr. Ghazala Zaid, a DMD graduate of Penn Dental Medicine and the clinic's principal dentist. The standard she sets is simple to state and demanding to live up to: treat each patient the way we would want to be treated ourselves. In day-to-day terms that means unhurried appointments, honest recommendations, and a genuine effort to know the people behind the charts. Leading a multi-dentist team, she also carries responsibility for how care fits together across the practice, so that each visit builds on the last rather than starting from zero.

Braces and orthodontic treatment are the areas she returns to most. What interests her is less the cosmetic finish than the mechanics underneath: how a bite distributes force, why crowded teeth trap plaque, and what a well-planned course of tooth movement can do for comfort and long-term health. Patients weighing their options hear the case for traditional braces and for clear aligners side by side, along with the honest possibility that no treatment is the right answer for now. The clinic's state-of-the-art equipment supports that planning, giving her a detailed picture of how teeth actually sit before anything is decided.

Orthodontics never happens in a vacuum, and her comprehensive training keeps the rest of the mouth in view. Gum health, aging restorations, wear patterns, and jaw comfort all factor into whether and how teeth should be moved. When a plan touches on root canal treatment, an extraction, or a child's early visits, she brings in colleagues whose interests fit, then keeps the thread of the overall plan in her own hands. That coordination is one of the quiet advantages of a multi-dentist practice: patients get a range of clinical perspectives without ever leaving the building.

The practice she leads is deliberately personal in scale. Midland Dental Center sits in the plaza at Midland and Eglinton, and many of its patients are neighbours — families from the surrounding Scarborough streets who come back season after season. Dr. Zaid welcomes new patients, and the front desk keeps scheduling flexible, with weekend availability, so orthodontic reviews and routine checkups can fit into real life. A multilingual team helps patients feel understood from the first phone call onward. Her aim, whatever the treatment, is a relationship that outlasts it.