Dentist seem not taken new patients

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Barrie786
Barrie786 Online Community Member Posts: 10 Listener
in PIP, DLA, ADP and AA

Good afternoon scope family,

As I am getting LWCRA I thought I give my dentist a call for appointment, well to my surprise they have took me off the register as I have not been that place since 2020.

Now I am trying to book a new patient appointment with a new dentist, and they are not wanting to know.

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  • Kimi87
    Kimi87 Online Community Member Posts: 6,377 Championing

    Unfortunately there is a chronic shortage of NHS dentists across the country.

    Unless you get lucky hearing of new NHS patients being taken on at a particular practice, the only other options are going private or not going at all for routine dental checks.

    If you had an urgent or emergency dental need, 111 can usually sort something out.

  • Barrie786
    Barrie786 Online Community Member Posts: 10 Listener

    Thank you for the update 😊

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 2,179 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Hi @Barrie786

    That sounds really frustrating , it’s tough when you're finally ready to sort something out and then hit a wall like that. I hope you're not in too much pain with your teeth. Hopefully, you'll be able to find a dental practice taking on new patients soon!

  • Barrie786
    Barrie786 Online Community Member Posts: 10 Listener

    Thank you, just wanted a routine clean, I was surprised that my dentist who I have been with over 25 years has took me off their registration.

    Just have to look around and see what I can find

  • Amaya_Ringo
    Amaya_Ringo Online Community Member Posts: 398 Championing

    My NHS dentist went private with no warning a year or two back. There are no NHS appointments in the area, and I've gone through a lot of dentists which have been a bad match until I got to this one, so I've just taken on the private cost for now. I pay £21 a month and my dentist is great, she gets as much as she can into the monthly fee. If I have to have proper treatment it might be a problem, but at the moment I'd rather have a dentist I trust with my teeth than gamble with another stranger who ends up wrecking another of my teeth.

    Fortunately my dentist also will do the hygenist stuff for me as well because she realises I don't want to deal with a stranger.

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 2,374 Championing

    I haven't seen a dentist in years. They went private and didn't bother to tell me. The other one is private too, I really must make the effort to scout around further afield.

    A number of years ago, I was a patient of a really good Dutch dentist, but he went home feeling undervalued, all because of Bre***it. What a shame.

  • Grumpy1314
    Grumpy1314 Online Community Member Posts: 292 Empowering

    I’m on the waiting list for a local dentist, heaven knows when I’ll get seen. I’ve got a very strong crippling phobia of Dentists 😨 I need to contact 111 to get a broken tooth removed, I’ve been before but my stomach condition stopped me going. My broken tooth is a wisdom tooth and the tooth is hooked under a nerve! 🤢

    I want to go back and ask for sedation, when they remove it they may as well remove the remaining two above, or the whole lot, I’d rather have a set of dentures.

  • Barrie786
    Barrie786 Online Community Member Posts: 10 Listener

    💯 true, such a shame

    I have called at least ten dentists today and nothing at all, all they want is us to go private which I cannot as it is so expensive

  • Ranald
    Ranald Online Community Member Posts: 2,374 Championing

    One local dentist was "only" £18.99 per month, but the cost of getting anything done would be out of reach for me. I just clean my teeth very thoroughly and at 50 yo, have had virtually no work needed so far.

  • Passerby
    Passerby Posts: 786 Championing

    May I ask what happened to my comment on this thread?

    Thank you.

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