This website helps you to find all the informations and treatments you need to reach a healthier and brither smile. Oral hygiene is extremely important as it affects not only the condition of the teeth but the overall health as well.
Dental hygienists and dental therapists can carry out their full scope of practice without prescription and without the patient having to see a dentist first. Since 1st May 2013 no referral is needed from a dentist to book a dental hygiene appointment.
Direct access is available.
“‘Direct Access’ means giving patients the option to see a dental care professional (DCP) without having first seen a dentist and without a prescription from a dentist. Some dental care professionals are able to see patients direct. The requirement to carry out certain treatments under prescription from a dentist was removed on 1 May 2013”