Information relating to the CDHB Community Dental Service

Community Dental Care for Children

This is in inform you that our dental van intends to visit your school in 2020 to see the children who are due for a check-up.    

The exact date will be determined by the progress of the rebuild.   

If your child has urgent dental concerns, prior to our visit, please call the number below for an appointment at a clinic convenient to you.

To contact the Call Centre:   phone 0800 846 983  or email:  commdental@cdhb.health.nz

Dental Care during the School Holidays

The Community Dental Service will be providing dental care for children enrolled with our service during the upcoming school holidays. The clinics will offer treatment and relief of pain sessions by appointment only. To make an appointment please contact our Call Centre which operates between the hours of 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday throughout the year.

The following Dental Clinics will be open during these school holidays:

• Woolston Clinic, 11 Hopkins Street, Woolston
• Hillmorton Clinic, Hillmorton Hospital, Sylvan Street,
• Ashburton Clinic, 38 Elizabeth Street, Ashburton
• Hornby Clinic, 2 Hei Hei Road, Hornby

The clinics will offer appointments between 8.45am and 3.00pm for school-age and preschool children requiring treatment.

If your child has dental pain as a result of an accident please contact your dentist in the first instance.

To book an appointment at one of our clinics please: call 0800 846 983

Or email commdental@cdhb.health.nz