WaytoomanyUIDs t1_jedxm83 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 9:23 AM

Reply to comment by 66ChickenHens in One in ten Britons have performed dentistry on themselves, half in the last two years by Schneetmacher

Dentistry was always the red-headed stepchild of the NHS. You only get limited free dentistry if you are under 16 or on benefits. Otherwise NHS patients have to pay for that limited range of treatments. Often dentists finagle it so they and the NHS end up paying more than it would cost a private patient (dentists are contractors to the NHS, not employees).

And the Tories have been systematically destroying the NHS over the last 13 years. As a result most dental surgeries have stopped taking new NHS patients.