Dentists in Cumbria will offer new preventative treatments.

Dental professionals in Cumbria have been chosen to take part in a new health initiative to provide preventative dentistry, it has been revealed.

The Westmoreland Gazette reported the scheme has already been launched in Kendal, Appleby, Wigton and Brampton and will be rolled out to other areas over the coming months. It will see dentists offering cutting-edge preventative treatment alongside their normal emergency dentistry offerings to patients.

Eric Rooney, NHS Cumbria’s consultant in dental public health, said: “We are delighted to have been selected to pilot these developments as part of the implementation of the national review of NHS dentistry.”

Elsewhere, the Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard recently reported a new dental practice is set to open in Cirencester to help fulfil the emergency dentistry needs of local residents.

Dr Ross Cutts and his family have moved to the area from Kent to open the new surgery – Cirencester Dental.