Dental


Page last updated: 14-JUL-2005

Dental

2005 Overview of NHS hospital dental service activity

Consultant-led, Hospital Dental Services are provided in the Dental Hospitals of Glasgow and Dundee, at the Edinburgh Dental Institute and in acute general hospitals.  Dental Hospitals usually cover all dental specialties, while the main specialties in acute general hospitals are orthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery and a limited provision of restorative and paediatric dentistry.


Inpatient discharges and day cases for year ending March 2005

Inpatient   
discharges p

   Day cases p

      Total p

All dental specialities

 

 

 

Community dental

 

 

 

Oral surgery

 

 

 

Oral medicine

 

 

 

Orthodontics

 

 

 

Restorative dentistry

 

 

 

Paediatric dentistry

 

 

 




Outpatient summary for the year ending March 2005

New patients p

Total   
attendances p

All dental specialities

93,213

324,728

Oral surgery

47,682

102,793

Oral medicine

13,662

20,551

Orthodontics

12,465

109,548

Restorative dentistry

12,664

71,487

Paediatric dentistry

6,740

20,349

p=provisional

Sources:
SMR00; SMR01; ISD(S)1.

31 March 2004


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