Machan Dental

Machan Dental Machan Dental in the heart of Larkhall is a long established, family practice.

Our team take time to make patients feel welcome and to offer care tailored to every stage of your life. That begins with encouraging children to develop the kind of healthy oral hygiene habits that grow with them, and helping you to enhance or maintain your smile, giving greater confidence at every age.

⭐️We would like to say a big hello to Paula, our new hygiene therapist⭐️Paula trained in Inverness and works two days ev...
18/11/2021

⭐️We would like to say a big hello to Paula, our new hygiene therapist⭐️

Paula trained in Inverness and works two days every week keeping our lovely patients smiling🪥🦷

☎️If you would like an appointment for an oral health check or a cleaning please call us on 01698 881688to book in, we have availability every week😀

We have recently increased our available appointments with our new dental therapist Paula 😀Paula can clean your teeth, r...
25/10/2021

We have recently increased our available appointments with our new dental therapist Paula 😀

Paula can clean your teeth, remove any staining, give an oral health check and carry out fillings.

If you've not been able to see your dentist for a while or feel the need for a clean. Please call us for an appointment on 01698 881688⭐️☎️🦷

An update on dental services from NHS Lanarkshire.As Scotland opens up more now we’re at level 0, many of you may be won...
03/08/2021

An update on dental services from NHS Lanarkshire.
As Scotland opens up more now we’re at level 0, many of you may be wondering why there’s still a wait to see your NHS dentist. This update explains it very well.
We thank you all for your patience and understanding.
If you have an emergency please call the practice for advice on 01698 881688

04/01/2021

Firstly a Happy New Year to all our patients.

Following the First Minister’s announcement today:

We are still open for essential and emergency dentistry, if you already have an appointment booked with a dentist or hygienist we are still open and will be happy to see you.

We ask everyone to follow the NHS advice and not to attend if you or someone you live with, or in your bubble has any symptoms of COVID-19 or has tested positive, you can re-arrange your appointment to a more suitable date. We also understand that with schools being closed and people told not to travel unless essential, you may wish to delay your treatment, if you feel you would like to put off until these new restrictions are relaxed. Again please call us and we will be happy to help.

Please remember to wear a face covering when entering the practice.

Stay safe and look forward to seeing you at some point in 2021.

Best wishes

Following the news that we will be entering Level 4 in South Lanarkshire, the good news is...As we are classed as an ess...
18/11/2020

Following the news that we will be entering Level 4 in South Lanarkshire, the good news is...

As we are classed as an essential service, we will NOT be closing. All our dental and hygiene services will continue to operate as normal.

We will continue to treat our patients safely with the new measures we have already implemented since re-opening in July.

Take care and stay safe.

06/11/2020

Morning everyone,

You may have heard that from 1st of November we are moving to Phase 4 of the NHS National Dental Mobilisation Plan.
This means that theoretically we will be able to provide the full range of NHS treatments to all patients in need of both urgent and non urgent care.

Unfortunately it is not business as usual.

Firstly, staff and patient safety remains our primary concern as we are in the midst of a second wave of the Covid 19 pandemic.

Secondly, the provision of NHS care will be contingent on the supply of NHS PPE and at present we have only limited PPE provided to us by NHS. And we are still working through our extensive routine treatment and examination waiting lists.

At Machan Dental we have mitigated against PPE supply chain issues by purchasing our own stocks and we remain confident that we will be able to continue to offer a full range of care on a private basis.

We constantly aim to improve the quality of care at every level and are currently looking at alternative ways to ensure that the level of service and care can be improved upon as we evolve into our new way of working.

The team at Machan would like to thank all of our patients for your patience and forbearance during the past 7 months, and for your understanding and cooperation whilst we implement new measures at the practice.

16/10/2020

Hi everyone,

It’s been a while since we posted and frustratingly not much has changed in terms of the limited NHS services we are able to offer patients at this point.

We are fielding a lot of enquiries since the Scottish Government’s latest announcement that the full range of NhS dental services will be resuming from November 1st.

We are awaiting further guidance on this in the coming days, however what is clear is that this will not be a return to any sort of pre-covid normality. This has been confirmed in our latest communication from the Chief Dental Officer.

With the rate of virus transmission increasing in our communities and across Scotland, NHS dental practices still have limited PPE and significantly reduced clinical time available to provide this type of care. It is due in part to the need to have fallow time and increased environmental cleaning after every appointment. We are also required to limit the number of patients in the practice at any one time, to respect social distancing measures and maintain a safe working environment for our staff. Even from November 1st, we are still expected to prioritise NHS emergencies and Urgent Dental Care within the confines of our available PPE and much reduced operational capacity. This uses the lion’s share of our available NHS resources and also means that significant waiting times for routine NHS care are unavoidable.

Recently, we have been contacting patients who’s routine examinations were cancelled to offer them an “Oral Health Check”. Although this is not a full clinical examination, it does allow our dentists to touch base with our patients as well as carry out oral cancer checks, and discuss any problems and concerns that patients may have and what options are available if patients wish to avoid a lengthy wait for care. The Oral Health Check appointments are being offered in chronological order according to when patients examination appointments were cancelled.
Progress in getting through the backlog of patients cancelled is very slow.

We have found that in light of the latest announcements about a return to full NHS care, a number of patients are holding off from attending Oral Health Check appointments in the hope that they will get a full NHS exam and any associated treatment in the near future. Unfortunately this is highly unlikely to be the case. We estimate that we have in the region of 4000 missed examination appointments to reschedule as Oral Health Checks in the coming months. Where as before COVID we could see on average 100-120 NHS patients per day, we are currently being provided with enough PPE to see 10 patients a day for Non Aerosol Generating Procedures including NHS Oral Health Checks. Furthermore, the PPE required to carry out NHS Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGP’s) is a much higher level. And we are still waiting for the NHS to provide this equipment and to arrange fit testing for all our staff. In summary, all of the above means that we can only offer about 10-20% of our pre-COVID levels of NHS appointments each day.

We are desperately awaiting guidance for the next phase of NHS Care and once we have had time to read, analyse and prepare for this we will do our very best to begin working through the huge backlog.

We appreciate your support through these incredibly difficult times and we look forward to seeing you all again soon.

01/09/2020

🦷There are still a few appointment slots with our hygienist tomorrow (Tuesday) morning😁

Send us a PM on Facebook if you would like to book.

Our hygienist Tabitha is now open for appointments for a freshen up after lockdown🦷She's available for a hand scale as w...
29/08/2020

Our hygienist Tabitha is now open for appointments for a freshen up after lockdown🦷

She's available for a hand scale as well as helpful oral hygiene advice🌟

To book an appointment, give us a call on 01698 881688☎️

As part of our re-opening preparations, we all got fit tested for ffp3 masks. It looks a bit strange so we thought we wo...
30/06/2020

As part of our re-opening preparations, we all got fit tested for ffp3 masks. It looks a bit strange so we thought we would share the photos. 😷👏

20/06/2020

The Scottish Government has announced that dental practices can start the process of reopening.
However, there are still restrictions and this does not include any routine or non-urgent appointments. We can only see our own dental emergencies and are limited to the amount of patients we can see each day.
We are still a while away from resuming normal routine dental care. During this phase of re-opening we ask for your continued patience as we have to work within the guidelines given to us by Scottish Government.
If you have a dental emergency please call our triaging system on 01698 881688 to receive advice from one of our dentists.
This service is available Monday - Friday 9am - 6pm
Evenings and weekends are covered by NHS24 who you can reach by calling 111.
Our target date for face-to-face, emergency only treatment is 1st July.

17/06/2020

To all our patients,

We thought we would let you know that we are getting closer to opening again soon. That decision will come from Scottish Government and the Chief Dental Officer (CDO).

Once we have a date we will let you know. However, we wanted to give more information about what to expect when we do re-open.

Initially, we will only be able to see emergency patients and will be very limited in the treatment we can provide. We will still be answering our phone and emergency mobile for urgent advice. Please be aware we are unable to carry out routine treatment in this initial phase of opening. We are still able to refer you to a centralised hubs if needed.

Infection control has and always will be paramount in a dental practice. And we have been working very hard behind the scenes preparing for re-opening. As an example, we have had professional face-fitting to provide the very best face masks for all staff, ensuring we have advanced PPE so you can trust that we have the very latest infection control procedures and equipment in place.

There will be some changes that we want to make you aware of, to ensure your safety and the safety of our staff. These include:

• Our doors will be locked, only pre-booked patients will be allowed to enter the practice
• When you call, we will advise and triage you relating to your dental problem.
• If you do need an appointment we will update your medical history and COVID history over the phone
• We will ask you, if possible to remain outside or in your car until we can take you into the practice
• Please come alone, unless the appointment is for a child or a patient requiring assistance
• Please bring a minimal amount of personal belongings with you as possible
• We are only allowed to operate one surgery with one small team, so you may not see your regular dentist
• We ask you to observe social distancing rules where possible, and we have alcohol hand sanitisers in our waiting room/ reception for you to use
• The whole team will be wearing PPE including face masks, visors & aprons
• We would prefer contactless payments if possible (the limit has increased to £45)
• You can still buy toothbrushes, whitening gel and TePe brushes

Finally, we look forward to seeing you again soon and you can be rest assured we will do our best to make your experience with us as easy and as safe as possible.

Thank you

Address

18a Machan Road
Larkhall
ML91HG

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 6:30pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+441698881688

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