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NHS dentists in East Lothian

There are 9 NHS dental practices in East Lothian. Between December 2025 and March 2026, 6 of them ended up with more patients than they started with.

NHS Lothian publishes its own list, and it’s better than this page

They ask practices directly and update it regularly, so it tells you who’s open now rather than who was registering people months ago. Start there.

NHS Lothian’s list of practices taking NHS patients

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 East Lothian

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.

  • 31/33 High Street

    Musselburgh · EH21 7AD

    14,813 patients

    took on 72

  • 40 Court Street

    Haddington · EH41 3NP

    11,205 patients

    took on 49

  • 23 Bridge Street

    Musselburgh · EH21 6AA

    8,807 patients

    list fell by 15

  • 27e Links Road

    Port Seton · EH32 0DU

    7,337 patients

    took on 94

  • 7 Sidegate

    Haddington · EH41 4BT

    3,808 patients

    list fell by 8

  • 7 High Street

    Dunbar · EH42 1EN

    3,531 patients

    took on 52

  • 1 Dirleton Avenue

    North Berwick · EH39 4AX

    2,125 patients

    list fell by 11

  • 2

    Longniddry · EH32 0NF

    1,681 patients

    took on 58

  • 11 Roseberry Place

    Gullane · EH31 2AN

    1,295 patients

    took on 6

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 Practices close and change hands between publications, so some of this will be out of date.

East Lothian is covered by NHS Lothian, where you can see every practice in the board area.

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