NHS dentists in Newton Mearns
There are 4 NHS dental practices in Newton Mearns. Between December 2025 and March 2026, 2 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 Newton Mearns
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.
Mearns Cross Dental & Implant Centre
3 Eaglesham Road · G77 5BW
10,490 patients
list fell by 4
Greenlaw Dental Practice
Unit 10, 3 Greenlaw Pl · G77 6GR
10,020 patients
took on 96
Crookfur Dental Practice
Crookfur Shopping Precinct,Harvie Ave · G77 6TR
2,196 patients
list fell by 46
Mearns Dental
259 Mearns Road · G77 5LU
1,929 patients
took on 39
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 Practices close and change hands between publications, so some of this will be out of date.
Newton Mearns is covered by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where you can see every practice in the board area.