A Suffolk woman who could not find an NHS dentist has had to crowdfund her new dentures.
A woman who extracted her own teeth because she couldn't find an NHS dentist says crowdfunding a new set of dentures has transformed her life. On Tuesday afternoon, MPs will question dental experts from NHS England as part of an official inquiry prompted by a BBC investigation into the dentistry crisis.
The Covid pandemic had left dental practices with severe backlogs of patients needing appointments, and this exacerbated an NHS funding gap which meant dentists had to take on more private work to survive.Nine in 10 NHS dental practices across the UK were not accepting new adult patients for treatment under the health service
Last August, she described how she no longer smiled at people and had stopped going out and socialising.
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