In October there were media reports that six Scottish Council areas now have no dental practices which were able to take on new adult NHS patients within three months; Argyll and Bute, Dumfries and Galloway, Inverclyde, Orkney, Perth and Kinross and Shetland, while just one practice in Fife said it was registering NHS patients, with a waiting list of three months. BBC Scotland News contacted almost 900 dental practices listed on the NHS inform webpage.