AQW 47892/22-27

Ms Connie Egan
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 04/06/2026
Answered On Date: 30/07/2026
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister of Health for an update on any health service orthodontist provision that is available in North Down.

Answer:

Currently there is 1 specialist orthodontic practice in the North Down constituency, with 3 dentists having an arrangement to provide health service dentistry. Details are provided in Table 1 below. Business Services Organisation (BSO) does not hold any information in relation to dental practices that are wholly private.

Dental Practice	Practice Address	Dentist Name
NORTH DOWN DENTAL AND IMPLANT CLINIC	2 BINGHAM LANE, BANGOR, BT20 5DR	J A FINLAY
		MR CONOR ARMSTRONG
		MR KARL GRIMES

Table 1: HSC Dentists at specialist orthodontic practices in North Down Assembly Area

Information supplied by SPPG as at 5th June 2026.

Outside North Down there are an additional 24 specialist orthodontic practices in Northern Ireland. Patients can be referred by their general dental practitioner to any of these specialist practices.