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NHS dentists in Dumfries

There are 10 NHS dental practices in Dumfries. Between December 2025 and March 2026, 5 of them ended up with more patients than they started with.

Nobody publishes a national list of who’s taking new NHS patients. NHS Inform’s dental directory lists every practice but doesn’t say whether any of them have space. Some practices also take children on but not adults, which these figures can’t distinguish.

What’s below is whether a practice’s list actually grew between December 2025 and March 2026. One that was signing people up then is a better bet than one whose list shrank, but it’s not a promise — these are net figures, so a practice that registered 300 and lost 200 looks like one that quietly took on 100. It’s a shorter list to phone, not a way of avoiding the phoning.

Every NHS practice in Dumfries

Largest first. Where a practice grew but its postcode area didn’t, that’s flagged — it usually means another practice nearby closed and the patients were moved across, so the list grew without anyone new getting on.

  • Great Kings Dental

    7 Great King Street · DG1 1BA

    8,956 patients

    took on 3,134

  • Dg Smile

    48 Whitesands · DG1 2RS

    4,939 patients

    took on 148

  • Orthodontic Lounge

    3 Loreburne Shopping Centre · DG1 2BL

    3,978 patients

    took on 205

  • The Blue Door Nhs Family Dp

    22 Castle Street · DG1 1DR

    3,240 patients

    list fell by 6

  • Dumfries Dental Centre

    Bankend Road · DG1 4AP

    2,405 patients

    list fell by 1

  • Sdc Clinics Ltd

    195 High Street · DG1 2QT

    1,474 patients

    list fell by 15

  • 2 Church Court

    Castle Street · DG1 1DE

    829 patients

    list fell by 4

  • Nith Place Dental Practice

    5-7 Nith Place · DG1 2PL

    689 patients

    list fell by 1

  • Dental Bees Dumfries

    124 Queensberry Street · DG1 1BU

    79 patients

    took on 3

    probably not general practice

  • Hmp Dumfries

    Terregles Street · DG2 9AX

    51 patients

    took on 1

    but DG2 shrank overall

    probably not general practice

Addresses and patient numbers come from Public Health Scotland’s Dental Practices and Patient Registrations dataset, March 2026 against December 2025. Practices close and change hands between publications, so some of this will be out of date.

Dumfries is covered by NHS Dumfries and Galloway, where you can see every practice in the board area.

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