Special Care Dental Service

Our Special Care Dental Service (SCDS) provides treatment to adults and children who require special care dentistry relating to:

• Learning disability
• Autistic spectrum disorders
• Severe physical disability
• Severe and enduring mental illness, eg schizophrenia
• Complex medical history/disabilities
• Patients requiring domiciliary care who fulfil any of the above criteria
• Children on Child Protection Plans
• Travellers’ children and children from homeless families
• Looked after children
• Children who require extractions under general anaesthesia due to very young age or children that require multiple extractions
• Adults and children with a disability who require treatment under general anaesthesia.

NHS dental charges will apply to all patients unless they meet the NHS dental exemption criteria and can supply evidence of this exemption.

We have 4 clinics:

St Leonards on Sea: Arthur Blackman Clinic, Special Care Dental Service, Battle Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN37 7AN.  Tel 0300 131 4611

Eastbourne: Ian Gow Memorial Health Centre, Special Care Dental Service, Milfoil Drive, Eastbourne, BN23 8BR.  Tel 01323 760666

Uckfield: Uckfield Community Hospital, Framfield Road, Uckfield, TN22 5AW.  Tel 01825 745005

Seaford: Seaford Health Centre, Dane Road, Seaford, BN25 1DH.  Tel 0300 131 4626