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£7.6 million dental centre will see 7,000 patients
15th Sep 2009
Scotland's public health minister has carried out the official sod-cutting ceremony for a £7.6 million dental treatment and training centre in Perth.
The site at the Broxden Business Park will feature 20 surgeries, a clinical skills training room, laboratory and decontamination unit.
Around 7,000 patients will have access to an NHS dentist when the facility is complete next summer.
Public health minister Shona Robison said it would be ‘a first-class facility'.
The minister said it would give thousands more people in the Perth area access to an NHS dentist.
Ms Robison said: ‘There are 20 dental chairs which means hopefully up to about 10,000 people will be able to be treated in this centre. That is going to make a really big inroad to those who want to register with an NHS dentist who have not had the opportunity to do so.
‘It's a hugely important facility and will provide services beyond just the teach and treat facilities, it will have some services which otherwise people may have to travel to the dental hospital to receive.'
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