Dental Surgery expands

Ballyconnell Dental Surgery extended services in 2023.

With the addition of a new surgery in 2023, Ballyconnell Dental Surgery is able to offer more services for its customers going forward.

Run by principal dentist Roisin McCorry and her husband Dr Aiden Malanaphy, who specialises in implantology, the local practice this year celebrated their 20th year in business on Ballyconnell’s Main Street (2003), having first established as a single-surgery practice in the Realta Centre in 2001.

The extension works carried out over the past 12 months mean that Ballyconnell Dental Surgery now has four state-of-the-art dental surgery rooms.

“In May we put in a new waiting room and sterilisation and decontamination room, and we put in a new surgery room as well,” says Roisin who herself has almost two decades of experience working as a dentist.

Dr Laura Connolly has taken over the new surgery room and joins a team that already boasts a wealth of experience alongside Roisin, Aiden, and Dr Niamh Scanlon, as well as hygenist Kathleen Heaslip, who can be booked for appointments three days a week.

With the new surgery room added, Roisin and her team can provide more emergency appointments. It has also help cut down the patient waiting list.

“We’re attracting a lot more new patients as a result. It’s been very positive. It’s been busy, but it has allowed us to offer more emergency appointments, which we can schedule within a day or two of a person making contact.”

Ballyconnell Dental Surgery’s Christmas opening hours include being open half day until 1pm on December 22.

The surgery will also be open December 27, 28, 29, 9am-1pm for routine and emergency appointments.

“Some of our patients who are off at Christmas and New Year, especially those who maybe can only come on Saturdays, it might suit some of them to book in these times to get treatments finished off,” explains Roisin.

Normal opening hours at Ballyconnell Dental Surgery will resume from January 2, 2024.