PUBLIC orthodontic patients are being forced to make frequent trips to Melbourne due to a lack of public and private services in Swan Hill.
Swan Hill District Health Dental Service Clinic coordinator Jeanette Healey said all public patients were referred to the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne, while private patients were sent to Bee Happy Orthodontics.
Bee Happy Orthodontics has confirmed the company’s othodontist who visits Swan Hill twice a fortnight is not seeing new patients and winding up services in Swan Hill, but will complete services with his current patients.
The nearest alternative Bee Happy service is an orthodontist who visits Kerang.
The company said it could not confirm whether there would be a replacement orthodontist.
For more on this story, see Friday’s edition of The Guardian (16/11/12).
