Scottish Dental Deserts

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'Dental deserts' - six councils refuse new NHS patients

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Six Scottish council areas are dental deserts’ with no practices able to take on new NHS patients.

Just one practice in Fife said it was registering NHS patients, with a waiting list of three months .

British Dental Association in Scotland said patient access issues are now a national problem.

David McColl , chairman of the British Dental Association’s Scottish Dental Practice Committee , said the Scottish government had delivered needed reform.

He added: “ Scotland needs a 21st Century service in which dentists would choose to build a career" Scottish government said it recognised that in some areas, particularly rural ones, access to dental services remained "challenging".

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