Barton Dental Surgery

COVID-19 UPDATE - 22nd September 2020

Unfortunately, we continue to follow the same restrictions we have for the last few months, meaning limited patient numbers per day, and due to these restrictions, all existing routine appointments will be cancelled up to the end of October 2020. We will be contacting those patients with appointments booked in to confirm the cancellation.

We are still only able to offer face-to-face appointments for emergency patients booked via our waiting list.

If you require an emergency appointment please call 01582 882600 where you will be offered a telephone appointment with the dentist on the day and will be added to the triage list.

Once you have been added to the list, we will call you when an appointment becomes available.
 Whilst we are doing our best to ensure that patients are seen as quickly as possible, we are aware that this is taking much longer than patients are normally used to and we apricate your understanding during this difficult time.

We will continue to monitor changes to standard operating procedures, and will endeavour to return to a more normal service as soon as we are able. We are planning to phase in AGP procedures slowly over the coming weeks and will be calling patients from our waiting list in due course.
Whilst we do not have a set date for the return of routine treatment at this time, we will endeavour to make our patients aware when we reach such a point.

As previously mentioned, we are still continuing to offer telephone triage appointments for emergency patients, including Advice, Analgesia information and Antibiotics where necessary.

We thank you for your continuing understanding and patience during this phased reopening and assure patients that we are working as hard as we can to offer services as quickly and safely as possible.

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*AGP – Aerosol generating procedure. This is any treatment involving the high-speed drills or ultrasonic scalers, that create a fine mist known as an Aerosol. Aerosols hang around in the air and travel a greater distance than our standard 2-meter social distance; This makes them incredibly effective at spreading this highly infectious disease much further and much quicker.