Should UK dental treatment be free at point of delivery as is other UK health treatment?
A good place to start would be to actually have some NHS dentists. I’ve been without a dentist for 3 years now, because my previous dentist decided that he wanted a new Porche and dropped all his NHS patients in favour of all private. I didn’t have £200 a year just to get appointments. The NHS has, so far, failed to attract any new dentists to the town and plans for a new surgery are on standby. My personal income is next to zilch as I can’t work and I have to live as a “kept man”. I had some emergency treatment the other month and it wasn’t too dear, as the NHS heavily subsidises the costs. I think it cost me about £5 to have a temporary filling done (it fell out again mind you). Teeth are an essential tool and complications from abscesses can be fatal. I do think that if someone is faced with expenses above say £50, then it should be funded like prescriptions are. I am currently on the brink of going on the rampage as I am sick fed up of the government’s failure to provide good denta
