Restorative Dentistry East Kent NHS Trust

The Restorative Dentistry service in East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT). This is mainly located at the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford Kent with Head and Neck Cancer appointments in Canterbury. This service is led by a Consultant in Restorative Dentistry. It has the priority of providing specialist periodontic, endodontic, prosthodontic advice and treatment to multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer, Trauma, cleft palate and patients with developmentally absent teeth seen in the Maxillofacial Department, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.

The service also provides advice and treatment when possible for complex restorative cases referred directly from primary care. Referrals should be made using the Kent referral Pathway which is found on Dental Electronic Referral (DERS), Vantage Rego.

Please note due to the limited capacity in comparison to London Hospital providers the service will not be listed as a provider all the time. Endodontic and Prosthodontic referrals will go through the same standardized triaging to ensure parity.

Referrals for patients who have been seen by the service for the same condition, and the service is not listed then Alison Cross alisoncross@nhs.net at NHSE/I should be contacted to make an appeal to divert the referral. Other communications can be sent to ekh-tr.restorative@nhs.net.

ELECTRONIC REFERRAL PROFORMAS AND LETTERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AS WELL AS PAPER REFERRALS. 

November 2019

The following forms are available for downloading in this area:

• East Kent NHS Trust – Restorative Dentistry – Referral Instructions
• East Kent NHS Trust – Restorative Dentistry – Referral Electronic Proforma
• East Kent NHS Trust – Restorative Dentistry – Referral Proforma for hand completion and posting