Fairview Dental Centre

General dentistry offices tend to differ in small logistics rather than in the work itself: how quickly a new patient gets an appointment, whether same day problems get worked in, and how the front desk handles insurance and referrals. Fairview Dental Centre keeps its office at 195 Calgary Ave, a short street a few blocks off the Main Street corridor in Penticton. That location sits inside the compact core of a city where almost nothing is more than a ten minute drive, which is part of why appointments here do not have to be planned around traffic the way they would be in a larger centre.

Penticton draws patients from well beyond the city limits, since Oliver, Osoyoos, Keremeos and the smaller communities around them lean on the South Okanagan service centre for health appointments of every kind. If you are driving in from one of those towns, ask when you book how much time to allow, and whether the visit is likely to need a second appointment, so that one trip over the hill does not turn into two. Bringing a list of current medications and any recent images from a previous dentist helps a first visit move along quickly.