Dental access centres provide emergency dental treatment and are available to everyone even if they are not registered with a dental practice. They also provide some routine checkups and treatment, but this is avaliable only once per patient and after that the patient is asked to register with a practice
Dental access centres in East Kent
Dental access centres are in the following locations in East Kent. The links lead to the www.nhs.uk national website, which provides details including contact numbers, opening hours, and what type of patients the centre will accept.
Dental access centres in West Kent
Although there are currently no dental access centres in
west Kent, plans are currently underway to develop one dental access centre in each
primary care trust
to provide occasional treatment to patients who are having difficulty accessing NHS dentistry. The dental access centres are planned to open during 2004 and locations and opening hours will be published once these have been confirmed.
Patients should continue to contact NHS Direct on 0845 4647 for details of NHS dentists registering new patients, and if they have difficulty should contact their local primary care trust dental lead.
