McManus and Scott Dental Surgeries

01/11/2023

From today, if you pay for your NHS treatment you may notice an increase in treatment charges. These increases are necessary to ensure that we are able to continue to provide NHS dental services and reflect the increase in the cost of delivering the care required for patients.

All patients will receive a free Dental examination and for those eligible, treatment may be completely free. Our reception staff will be happy to discuss if you are eligible for free dental treatment.

The increased fees are set by NHS Scotland and we have no control over them.

Your dentist will give you a personal estimate of costs for your
course of treatment. For those in that have started a course of treatment before the 1st of November, the costs will not change.

Please visit the website below for updated fees

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08/03/2021

‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT INFO‼️‼️‼️

Due to the installation of a new ventilation system at our Holytown practice, the surgery will be closed from Tuesday 9th March to Friday 12th March. The phone lines will remain open for dental advice for our patients. Severe dental emergencies will be referred to our sister Newarthill practice if necessary.
The new ventilation system will provide more than 10 air changes per surgery per hour. We feel this is yet another mitigating factor to further improve the safety for our patients and staff.
Thank you all in advance for you patience and understanding.

09/02/2021

The roads are treacherous today, especially around the side streets. We are concerned that the forecast is to continue snowing as well. If you do have an emergency that needs urgent treatment today, can you please call as soon as possible as we are intending to close earlier this afternoon to make sure all our staff that have made it into work, can get home safely.

Thanks and stay safe.

Holytown: 01698833088
Newarthill: 01698862727

21/01/2021

Emotional day for the team today as we bid farewell to this wee beaut!! I’ve had the pleasure of calling her ‘my nurse!’ for the last 13 yrs and will miss her immensely. I mean that not only as a wonderful, skilled dental nurse but as a friend and confidant. As I’m sure many of my patients will testify, Erin’s chatty and positive manner has helped take even the most nervous patients minds off having treatment.
We’ll all miss her funny stories and kindness. We do all though, wish her every success and happiness on her next adventure and new career path.

Thank you so much for all your hard work and all you have done not only for Mcmanus and Scott, but for me.

All the best Erin.

Lee-Anne xx
and of course all the rest of team M n S 😜

( ps mask taken off only quickly just for photo purposes!)

05/01/2021

‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE‼️‼️‼️

Both practices are now reopened after the Christmas break.

Following the First Ministers announcement yesterday, we have now had communication from our Chief Dental Officer, who has clarified that healthcare, including dentistry is deemed an essential service, so we CAN remain open and travel to appointments is permitted.

Only purely cosmetic procedures (facial aesthetics, whitening etc) are NOT permitted during this period.

We are working hard today and over the next few days to look at our appointment books and we may unfortunately have to reschedule your appointment to minimise the amount of people in the buildings and the number of contacts between patients. However, unless you hear from us directly, you can assume your appointment will go ahead as planned. We may have to postpone routine check ups for January to free up more space for emergencies.

We have put a lot of work into making sure both practices are as safe as possible for our staff and patients alike and this is true now more than ever. Our cross -infection controls and all the other mitigating factors we have implemented, mean you can rest assured you will be in safe hands.


We also completely understand that many of our patients are anxious about the current situation and some that have returned to shielding won’t feel comfortable coming out at the moment. If this applies to you or a family member and you have an appointment made in the coming weeks you wish to reschedule, just give our receptionists a call and they will be happy to postpone or remake this for you ☎️📞.

This setback will unfortunately affect the ability for us to make a dent in the backlog of patients still awaiting outstanding treatment and we are sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. We will of course be doing all that we can. As before we will still be here to see you for any emergencies or other concerns, so please don’t hesitate to call us if you need any assistance with any dental issues.

At this time the surgery doors will remain locked 🔒 and only persons with an appointment will be allowed in the building, so please don’t turn up with-out one. Please wear a face covering 😷, arrive on time, and where possible wait in your car and let us know you are here 📱. On entry, please use our hand sanitizer and await instructions from our staff, who are there to keep you as safe as possible. As always, anyone who has any of the symptoms of COVID-19, is awaiting a test result or who has been asked to self- isolate should NOT attend the practice at present.



This certainly isn’t the New Year’s message we were hoping to post, but with the vaccination programme underway, we hope that things will start to look better again soon and we truly hope to get back to some sort of ‘normality’ by spring 🤞🏼🤞🏼.

Best wishes and stay safe

Lee-Anne, Jim and team McManus and Scott.

04/01/2021

In light of the First Ministers announcement today, we are still awaiting clarification on what this means for us from our Cheif Dental Officer. We will update you on here as soon as we hear anything.

Thanks so much for your patience in the mean time.

All the team at McManus and Scott

22/12/2020

Please take note of our opening hours over the holiday period. We are open (with only one dentist in each practice) to see emergency patients only) between Christmas and New Year. This is to allow our hard working dentists, dental assistants and admin staff a week earned rest with their families.

If you have a dental emergency on these days, please call as early as possible, as the appointments will only be allocated on the day.

For any emergencies out with these days please call NHS 24 on 111 and they will assist you.

Thursday 24th Dec: 9am-3pm

Friday 25th Dec: Closed
Boxing Day: Closed
Monday 28th Dec: Closed

Tuesday 29th Dec: open 9am-5pm ( Emergency appointments only)by telephone arrangement

Wednesday 30th Dec: 9am-5pm : ( Emergency appointments only by telephone arrangement

Thursday 31st Dec 9am-3pm : ( Emergency appointments only ) by telephone arrangement

Friday 1st Jan 2021: closed
Monday 4th Jan 2021: closed

Tuesday 5th Jan 2021: 9am-5pm

Please only use these emergency 🚨 🆘 appointments if you really need them 🤞🏼

Holytown: 01698 833088
Newarthill: 01698 862727

Have wonderful, safe and happy Christmas from all of us here at McManus snd Scott.
🎅🏻🎉🎊🥳

16/12/2020

Always cheers us up to get such a lovely review. Thanks very much Kieran, we look forward to welcoming you back ☺️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🥳

02/11/2020

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️IMPORTANT UPDATE ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️



As some of you may have seen on the news the Scottish Government has announced the return of routine NHS dental treatments in community Dental Practices from today. We are pleased that we can now offer more NHS services to our loyal and lovely patients, it really does feel a step closer to normality( whatever that may be!!). We do however feel the need to explain that it is not, by any manner of means, ‘ business as usual’. There are severe limitations on how we provide NHS dental treatment, as those of you who have visited the practice since June will have seen. The effect of this is that we can only see a small handful of patients a day, we estimate this is approximately 20% of our usual capacity pre lockdown across both practices



As such, we must prioritise treatment for the people who had palliative urgent treatment during lockdown and those that had unfinished treatment ( especially those with active dental decay/ periodontal disease) at the start of the pandemic. We will be going through our files over the next few weeks to identify and contact those of who who fall into these categories. There will be limited scope for routine check- ups, but we hope to increase that in the coming months.



We will of course continue to provide emergency and urgent dental care for all our registered patients and you should contact the surgery by telephone if you have any dental problems.



Over the last few months we have continued to provide a full range of dental treatment on an independent basis and will continue to do this as each of our dentists will have time dedicated to private treatments. So,if you wish to have any tooth whitening, tooth coloured fillings, crowns or bridges, composite bonding, dental implants or flexible or cosmetic dentures, air polishing- please don’t hesitate to contact our receptionist and we will get you an appointment.



This has been an extremely difficult time for everyone, but we are still here. We will endeavour to help those who need our help the most and will get there for the rest of you, albeit a bit longer than you are used to having to wait to see us. We thank you for your patience, your loyalty and your continued support.



Stay safe and remember to floss your 🦷😊



Lee-Anne, Jim and all the team and McManus and Scott.



Please see letter from our chief of dentistry Mrs Anne Moore

22/10/2020

Today we had the absolute privilege to share a very special birthday with a very special person. Our lovely (Holytown)practice manageress Lorraine. We enjoyed some socially distanced cupcakes and juice at lunch 🧁🧃😁. Happy birthday lovely lady!! ###