People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. Those who experience a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain should be able to ...
Experts recommend getting a dental checkup twice a year. Julia Burmistrova/Moment via Getty Images Donald Chi: Low-income people often have difficulty finding and accessing dental care. That ...
A woman had to pull her own rotten tooth out with a set of pliers despite calling more than 100 NHS and private dentists trying to get an appointment. Tobye Spencer, 57, from Poole in Dorset, had a ...
Imagine having such a terrible toothache and no access to a dentist that you take a pair of pliers and pull your own tooth. Meet Chester Moody. It’s 1958 in the Jim Crow South: Lorman, Mississippi, to ...
Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, others were stained or crooked. Ashamed, she smiled with lips pressed closed. Her dentist offered to fix most of her teeth with root canals and crowns, Carroll ...
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Brits are pulling out their own teeth for lack of urgent dental care, says patient watchdog
The UK is facing a deepening crisis in NHS dentistry, with some Brits pulling out their own teeth due to the inability to secure urgent dental care, according to patient watchdog Healthwatch England.
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