Community Dental Service

Please contact the main reception at Castle Circus Heath Centre for all enquiries regarding the dental service.

Tel: 01803 217777 – Please leave a message on the answerphone and we will call you back as soon as we can.
Email: Community Dental Service

Complaints: Please contact the team or find more information from NHS England Complaints​.

Opening hours

Castle Circus Health Centre, and Brunel Dental Centre:

• Monday to Friday 8:45am to 4:30pm.
• We are closed at lunchtimes from 12:30pm to 1:15pm
• Car parking charges apply at Castle Circus Health Centre.

Please note: we are closed at weekends and on public holidays.

Services

We provide a specialised dental service for adults and children with complex needs who find it difficult to use general dental services.

We deal with public health issues such as epidemiological surveys, the identification of oral health inequalities in the local population and the provision of oral health promotion activities.

Eligible patients are:

• NHS treatment for people with mental and or physical health problems. Individuals with special needs such as wheelchair users, bariatric patients, housebound people, who fit the acceptance criteria of the service.
• NHS treatment for groups of people with special needs such as special schools and people with learning disabilities.

People are usually referred to the Special Care Dental Service from other services but please contact us for advice.

To refer someone to the South Devon Special Care Dental Service you can find dental referral guidance and forms (including our referral form – NHS England South West Referral Form Request for Assessment of Patients with Additional Needs). Please note, self-referrals will not be accepted.

Some patients may be accepted for a single course of treatment and then discharged or referred back to their dentist for ongoing maintenance and care, depending on their special care needs. We will inform both the patient and dentist regarding this.

• Dental Referral Guidance and Forms

Mandatory NHS treatment includes:

• Urgent treatment
• Examination, diagnosis and advice
• Preventive care for patients
• Education for carers
• Periodontal treatment
• Conservative treatment
• Minor surgical treatment
• Supply and repair of dental appliances
• Taking of radiographs
• Supply of listed drugs and listed appliances
• The issue of prescriptions

Advanced mandatory NHS treatment includes:

• Sedation care
• Domiciliary dental care

The NHS website may help to clarify some of the above services that we offer on their dental health advice pages.

Urgent dental care

Urgent NHS Dental treatment is for people who do not have a regular dentist and are in need of urgent dental care in the case of trauma and pain.

South Devon Special Care Dental Service arranges appointments for people who need urgent NHS dental treatment. This is likely to be with a General Dental Practitioner and for the relief of pain.

Once the urgent problem has been resolved, all patients are advised to find a dental home ​for full mouth assessment and continuing care.

South Devon Special Care Dental Service are unable to register urgent patients.

During office hours please contact South Devon Special Care Dental Service for advice on 01803 217777.

Out of hours emergency dental service

If you require help outside of these hours, please contact Devon Dental on 03330 063 300.

The NHS website provides information on toothache.

Community dental team