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NHS dentists in Inverness

There are 14 NHS dental practices in Inverness. Between December 2025 and March 2026, 6 of them ended up with more patients than they started with.

NHS Highland 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 Highland’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 Inverness

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.

  • Dental Dept. Assynt House

    Beechwood Park · IV2 3BW

    19,201 patients

    list fell by 402

  • Inverness Dental Clinic Ltd

    9 Castle Street · IV2 3DX

    10,046 patients

    took on 114

    but IV2 shrank overall

  • Torwood Dental Practice

    4 Kenneth Street · IV3 5NR

    7,583 patients

    list fell by 174

  • Evolution Dental Practice

    27 Wells Street · IV3 5JU

    6,544 patients

    list fell by 33

  • T/A Bupa Dental Care

    Stoneyfield Business Park · IV2 7PA

    5,300 patients

    list fell by 57

  • T/A Bupa Dental Care, Hazel House

    Stoneyfield Business Park · IV2 7PA

    5,052 patients

    list fell by 73

  • Inshes Dental Centre

    3 Cradlehall Court · IV2 5WD

    4,449 patients

    list fell by 40

  • Lets Smile Dental Care

    24 Bank Street · IV1 1QU

    3,003 patients

    took on 198

  • One Dental Practice

    1 Montague Row · IV3 5DX

    2,983 patients

    list fell by 7

  • Ness Bank Dental Practice

    6 Ness Bank · IV2 4SF

    2,234 patients

    took on 12

    but IV2 shrank overall

  • Croy Dental

    1 MacKinnon Drive · IV2 5PD

    1,547 patients

    took on 29

    but IV2 shrank overall

  • Union Street Dental Centre

    19 Union Street · IV1 1PP

    1,076 patients

    took on 8

  • Eden Dental Clinic

    12 Bishops Road · IV3 5SD

    789 patients

    took on 3

    but IV3 shrank overall

  • Southside Private Oral Surgery

    28 Southside Road · IV2 3BG

    6 patients

    list fell by 1

    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.

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

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