5/132 Epsom Ave. Belmont  6104 Western Australia Telephone: 9478 2349 eMail: epsom-dental@bigpond.com

Dr John Flynn  B.D.Sc.  Return to home page

John Flynn was born at King Edward Memorial Hospital 19th June 1945. He was the youngest son of the late Kevin and Olive Flynn. His two brothers: Bernard Flynn and Laurie Flynn. The eldest brother James died in Kalgoorlie from meningitis one week short of his first birthday..
Until age 9 John and his brothers lived at Stanhope Rd in Kalamunda where his father owned an orchard.
John attended Piecies Brook school on Mundaring road when he was 6 and then went to Kalamunda Primary school. His father sold the orchard and then obtained employment with the new BP refinery in Kwinana, so the family moved to Medina.
John attended Medina primary school and then entered the new Kwinana Junior High school.
Then the family moved to Rockingham where John spent many carefree days at the beach.
At age 15 John began senior high school at John Curtin in Fremantle and travelled by bus every day.
At age 17 John began study at the University of Western Australia in Nedlands and finally graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Dental Science degree. John married Helen Edwards when he was still in the 4th year of study.
John was a car enthusiast and was noted for driving a Jaguar Mk5 and then a Mk 7 as a student. His very first car was a green 1948 Hillman. 

Professional Days 

Wongan Hills Dental Surgery  1969 - 1971
John conducted his first private practice at Wongan Hills in WA. 
He succeeded Dr Les Waldon who was the first resident dentist in Wongan Hills. 
John's interest in cars grew and he purchased an Alfa Romeo GT and later a Jaguar XK120. 
John then tried his hand at local dirt track racing in a highly modified Renault Dauphine.
John also purchased a Renault Dauphine powered by a 292 cubic inch V8.  It was an unfinished project and after some time John and his mechanic decided that it was not viable as the basis for a race car mainly due to the the expense involved and the fact that a suitable gearbox could not be found, and so the car was scrapped.
The marriage with Helen was dissolved after only 3 years together.  

Moora Dental Surgery  1971 - 1973
John took up residence at the new Moora Dental Surgery and had the honour of being the first resident dentist in the township of Moora. He purchased a white Lotus Europa but soon tired of it due to its lack of power.  Again John began work on a new project. This was a Renault Floride that he modified by swapping the 850cc motor for a 1600cc motor and drive-train from a Renault 16TS. This car performed well and it is still owned by a farming family in the south west of WA.  Not satisfied with that effort John decided to build a Formual 3 open wheel racing car. He chose a Renault 10 motor and gearbox. The motor was highly modified by Dave Sullivan in Subiaco. He welded a space frame chassis from tubular steel and studied race car design before building the suspension, steering and bodywork. He raced the car at Waneroo race track at a few meetings without success but he was satisfied that the project was complete and the car had functioned quite well.  

London Hanwel 1973 -1974
After arriving in England John purchased an old Renault R8 which he drove from Edinburgh to London.
In London, John worked for Dr Eric Sorrel at Hanwel and lived nearby in Ealing. 
John purchased a TVR 3000M sports car from the factory in Blackpool and in his spare time travelled to different parts of the UK. He then travelled around Western Europe for several months before shipping himself and the car back to Perth on the Marconi from the Italian port of Genoa.
Incidentally he met his second wife Brigitte Bundi (a Swiss national) on board the ship heading to Fremantle. 

North Perth  1974 - 1976
After returning to Perth, John leased a dental surgery at 308 Fitzgerald St. that was formerly owned by Dr Justin McCarthy. During this time John renovated and started a part time practice at the St Georges Terrace end of London Court in Perth. John purchased a Lotus Europa that he had owned previously in Moora. At first he was unaware that it was the same car as he had owned before because it had been resprayed a yellow colour. He then dismantled the car and rebuilt it. He swapped the original motor (Renault 16) for a P76 alloy V8. John designed and built a transaxle using a Ford GT 4 speed gearbox and a Holden limited slip differential. The machining was carried out by Kon Melle of KKM tooling when his workshop was still in Morley. The car had a scintillating performance.  John entered the car in a few drag race meetings at Ravenswood without any notable results but again was satisfied that he had completed the project and had enjoyed the experience immensely.
John remarried during this time to Brigitte Bundi from Switzerland and then moved to a new home at 276 Drake St in Morley.  

Morley  1976 - 1981
Unhappy with the volume of patients, John closed the North Perth surgery and sold the London Court practice. He then established a new modern practice in Progress St. Morley. Soon after his wife gave birth to their first son Roy.  John tried his best but still the work volume was not high enough to be economical. High rent payments and too many other commitments took their toll and John closed that practice after a year. Feeling a need for a change, he opened a steel fabrication business called "Javelin Steel " in Bayswater where he was kept very busy. He was very happy in this work where he was able to fully utilise his creative design and practical skills. Unfortunately with a combination of poor business acumen and some measure of bad luck, the business had to be closed after 18 months in operation.
His second son Casey Flynn was born in 1980. 

Switzerland 1981 - 1988
With his wife and two boys John moved to his wife's homeland of Switzerland. John was able to find work as an assistant dentist with Dr Emile Gruenberg in Oelikon, a suburb of Zurich. Later John worked for Dr Hirt in Uster and then eventually worked 5 years for Dr Leviknic in Wald. The long hours, heavy workload, stress and culture shock led to the early breakdown of his marriage. During his time in Switzerland John had to learn German.  John purchased a new Renault Alpine V6GT which he drove on many memorable trips around Europe.  John lived in a defacto relationship for 5 years with Barbara Grossman from Brienz who was an air hostess with Balair. 
John returned home to Perth after 7 years in Switzerland due to his mother's terminal illness. He decided to stay in Perth and obtained part time work for a few months.   Unfortunately he had to leave the Renault Alpine in Switzerland because the import duty was prohibitive and being a left-hand drive, it was not a practical option. 
He obtained a divorce from Brigitte in 1989.  

Belmont Dental Surgery  1989 - 2000
John purchased the dental practice at 171 Belmont Avenue, Belmont from Dr Tony Callis. The practice was originally established by Dr Brigitte Mancowicz who had emigrated from Germany just after World War II.
During this time John purchased a Porsche 911 but it proved to be too expensive to run and attracted too many speeding fines. John then bought a 1985 Renault 25 which he found to be ultra reliable, cheap to run and enjoyable to drive. During this time John married Susanne Abplanalp, the daughter of the Swiss Consul in Perth. Susanne gave birth to a son Daniel, but the marriage was short-lived and they were divorced in 1996.  John lived at the surgery for 2 years before buying another house in Rivervale.
John's inventive mind created the Xerostar Dental Suction System and XeroJet suction system cleaner which he  marketed but with limited success.  (He still uses these products in his present dental practice).
John spent several years defending himself in the WA Family Court due to unjust demands for $250,000 unpaid maintenance from the Swiss government. (The matter was finally resolved in 2004 with a successful appeal).
After 10 years in this practice John felt it was time for a change and he sold the practice to Dr Ben Campbell. 

Full Time Internet Business  2000 - 2002
John took what he called a "self funded long Service leave" on AMEX credit. 
John worked for 2 years 7 days a week and up to 18 hours a day on his internet business.
At one stage John had created over 30 different web sites. He published a book about George Harrison 
(see Midi-eBooks.com) as well as developing 4 different software programs:
"eBook 3D Wizard" - this enables the user to create realistic 3D images of eBooks, Boxes, DVDs etc.
"Xerotron" - an idea generator
"eBook Composer" - converts MS Word documents into multiple HTML pages ready for an eBook compiler. 
"Baby Name Generator" - an easy way to generate suitable names for babies.

John lived in a defacto relationship with Lee Huang Yeoh for 10 years (Lee was from Penang in Malaysia). 
Until recently she owned a successful Chinese restaurant in the Belmont Forum Shopping centre.
John also wrote a "musical short story" entitled "The Xerotron Story" which he published on the Internet.
The income from this business was not sufficient to pay all the bills so John decided to go back to dentistry. 

Epsom Dental Care  2003 - 
John rented an empty shop at 5/132 Epsom Ave near Redcliffe and began outfitting the dental surgery. 
The building work took over 6 months to complete and it was opened for business in late February 2003.
After a slow start, the word soon spread that "John Flynn was back" and the appointment book began to fill.
John admits he has never been happier in his career and gets a lot of satisfaction from his work, particularly in  cosmetic treatment. Being in a position to help those in genuine need has also brought him satisfaction.
The Xerojet cleaning liquid business was taken over by Arron Metcalf in 2004 as John needed to devote more time to his dental practice.  John recently married Pavinee Wonghiran from Thailand. 
He still lives in Rivervale and drives a 2002 Toyota Corolla .. and rides his bike to work (weather permitting)...
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