Our Service
Throughout Kent, we offer a private mobile dental service to individuals in their own homes, residents of care homes or retirement villages and patients in hospital or in a hospice. We can also provide visiting dentistry to schools, colleges, universities or companies. Through Advance Healthcare Logistics Ltd we offer a country-wide on-site dental service for patients in secure hospital settings. Our equipment is completely portable and our staff is experienced at working "in the field" - if you need an on-site dental service, we will do our very best to provide it.
Our modern, portable dental equipment, including digital x-ray, enables us to offer the majority of dental treatments available in a conventional surgery. These include: clinical examination, hygiene treatments (scaling & polishing), fillings and extractions (subject to medical history and where safe to deliver in the home environment) and a full denture fabrication and repair service.
Booking an Appointment
You can book an appointment with us by telephoning 01304 842995 or by emailing us on enquiries@themobiledentistcompany.com. Our telephone lines are open from 09.00-17.00 Monday - Friday and you can leave a message outside those hours.
Consent & Medical History
We use a Patient Consent Form to record consent to examination and treatment and consent tp payment - this may be signed by the patient or their representative/person holding Power of Attorney, as appropriate. We also supply a Medical History Questionnaire for completion before an appointment.
Our Consent Form also asks you to consent to us contacting your GP (and if relevant the Care Home) for Medical History/Medications because in order to treat patients safely in a home setting we may need more detailed medical information to hand.
Where patients are unable to consent and nobody holds Power of Attorney, we can carry out a Best Interest Assessment.
Relative & Carers
We welcome the attendance of family members, carers or friends at appointments, if the patient is happy for them to be there. If none are able to be present, we can provide information and feedback after the appointment.
New Patients
All new patients are offered a full consultation including x-ray and photographs as appropriate, oral cancer screening, periodontal health assessment, preventive advice, hygiene advice, topical fluoride application if required and emergency pain relief if required. From 1st April 2025, the new patient consultation costs £110, plus £90 call out charge, making a total of £200.
Treatment Planning
After the consultation, the dentist will prepare a treatment plan setting out recommendations for further treatment. Sometimes it is possible to carry out further treatment at the initial appointment, provided appropriate consent is given and sufficient medical history is available. Alternatively, patients will be offered a follow-up appointment. There is never any obligation to proceed with further treatment.
Spreading the Cost of Care
Although we believe that we offer excellent value for money by bringing the dental service to you and eliminating the costs of travel, extra staffing and disruption for the patient, private dental care is not cheap. If you have had a new patient consultation with us and are looking for continuing care (regular dental check-ups and hygiene treatments) our Denplan Essentials Preventive Care Plan is worth considering. For £33 per month (around £8 per week) you or your relative in residential care can benefit from six monthly check-ups and scale and polish treatments, a simple filling or extraction if needed and carried out at the same appointment, plus 20% discount on all our other treatments, and Denplan Supplementary Insurance. There is a parallel plan for full denture wearers.
Care homes can choose to sign up to regular dental clinics, held at the home, enabling all residents to be seen throughout the course of a year and offered a range of treatment, ensuring that residents' oral health needs are being met on a continuing basis. Clinics can also be booked as stand-alone Dentist for the Day, three-quarter day or half day visits.
Planning for Care
If you or your relative are planning to enter residential care you may want to ask the care home what arrangements it has in place for access to dental care. Some care homes will provide transport and staffing to take residents out to a dental appointment but there is usually a charge for this. Other homes rely on relatives visiting to accompany residents to an appointment. Consider joining our Denplan Essentials Preventive Care Plan, which brings the dental care to you or your relative and we will automatically contact you to arrange regular check-ups or tell the home about our regular dental clinics.