Hong Kong does not have comprehensive public dental care for adults. “Government dental clinic” almost always means one specific, narrow service: 11 clinics running a Dental General Public Session for emergency pain relief and tooth extraction, most only a few sessions a week. Here is exactly what it covers and how to get a slot.
Only two things: relief of pain, and extraction of one tooth per visit. The service does not include dental filling, scaling and polishing, dentures, bridge removal, or pre-orthodontic extraction. You must bring a valid identity document, and anyone under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Through the Online Registration for Dental General Public Session (ORDGP), open 6:00am to 11:30am for a slot the next working day (if the next day is a Saturday or public holiday, no registrations are taken). Register via the eHealth app, the iAM Smart app, or the DH's ORDGP website. Slots are allocated by computer ballot immediately after registration closes; if you can't use a phone or computer, staff at any Dental General Public Session clinic will help you register in person between 8:30am and 11:30am.
Half of each day's quota is reserved on a priority basis for people aged 65 or above in the first round of balloting; unallocated priority slots then join the general pool. If you've registered in the past 30 days without success, a compassionate mechanism sets aside 5% of first-round quotas for you and places you on the waiting list with priority. Successful applicants get an SMS confirmation carrying the ID “#DH-DENT GP” with a “#” prefix and no hyperlink — a genuine message from the Department of Health never contains a link, which is worth knowing given how common SMS scams are.
Since 1 January 2026, the service is free of charge for eligible persons — broadly, Hong Kong Identity Card holders (with the standard immigration-status caveat), Hong Kong resident children under 11, or others approved by the Director of Health. For non-eligible persons, the consultation fee (including extraction and other oral surgical emergencies) is HK$850, plus HK$90 per prescription item, for up to four weeks.
If you already had a confirmed slot, it's automatically rescheduled to the same clinic and time, one week later (or the following week if that date is a public holiday). The two clinics that only run once a month — Tai O and Cheung Chau — reschedule to the next month's session instead. Clinic staff will contact you to confirm.
Committed from the Department of Health's own clinic list, snapshotted 2026-09-13 — the figures the Health Bureau itself publishes when it says these clinics exist, not a live feed.
| Kennedy Town Community Complex Dental Clinic | 10/F, Kennedy Town Community Complex, 12 Rock Hill Street, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong | +852 3583 3461 | Monday & Friday (AM) |
| Kowloon City Dental Clinic | 3/F, Kowloon City Health Centre, Kowloon City Government Offices, 42 Bailey Street, Hung Hom, Kowloon | +852 2768 9721 | Monday & Thursday (AM) |
| Kwun Tong Dental Clinic | LG/F, Kwun Tong Community Health Centre Building, 60 Hip Wo Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon | +852 2345 4787 | Wednesday (AM) |
| Tai O Dental Clinic | Tai O Jockey Club Clinic, 103 Shek Tsai Po Street, Lantau Island | +852 2985 7657 | 2nd Thursday of each month (AM) |
| Cheung Chau Dental Clinic | 2/F, St. John Hospital, Tung Wan Road, Cheung Chau | +852 2981 0578 | 1st Friday of each month (AM) |
| Mona Fong Dental Clinic | 1/F, Mona Fong Clinic, 23 Man Nin Street, Sai Kung | +852 2163 9250 | Thursday (PM) |
| Tai Po Wong Siu Ching Dental Clinic | 1 Po Wu Lane, Tai Po | +852 2652 3737 | Thursday (AM) |
| Fanling Health Centre Dental Clinic | 3/F, Fanling Health Centre, 2 Pik Fung Road, Fanling | +852 2671 2046 | Tuesday (AM) |
| Tsuen Wan Dental Clinic | 213 Sha Tsui Road, Tsuen Wan | +852 2492 0880 | Tuesday & Friday (AM) |
| Yan Oi Dental Clinic | 2/F, Yan Oi Polyclinic, 6 Tuen Lee Street, Tuen Mun | +852 2452 3265 | Wednesday (AM) |
| Yuen Long Jockey Club Dental Clinic | 269 Castle Peak Road, Yuen Long | +852 2477 1808 | Tuesday & Friday (AM) |
These links go directly to the Department of Health's own pages — not to ok.med.
Fee effective 1 January 2026. Clinic list snapshotted 2026-09-13 from dh.gov.hk's own data.gov.hk-published spreadsheet.
2026-09-13