Dental Services

The National Institute of Mental Health, Sri Lanka offers dental care services to inward psychiatric patients, staff as well as out-patients coming from the Community.

Two Dental Chairs are operational at NIMH Main Unit and s single chair is available at Section C.

The dental clinic at NIMH provides the following services to their clients.

1. Oral Extraction 2. Temporary & Permanent restorations 3. Periodontal treatment/ Scaling 4. Nerve filling 5. Oral medications

Dental Clinic is operational on all working days from Monday to Saturday.

Dental Clinic is open for outpatients from the community from 8.00 am to 10.00 am

Inward patients should be sent for Dental Clinic review after informing from 10.00 am onwards.

Dental Surgeons will visit wards in the afternoons to review patients with regard to their oral health.

Identified patients with oral health issues should be referred to the Dental Clinic by the unit Medical Officers.

Where Consultant opinion is needed such patients will be referred to the National Dental Hospital of Sri Lanka.