UK Dentistry in Crisis as People Pull Out Own Teeth With Pliers
- Politicians demand urgent reform to state-run system
- One in 10 Britons has attempted own dental work, survey says
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Dentistry in the UK needs urgent reform following cases of people using pliers to pull out their own teeth, a parliamentary report has said.
The Health and Social Care Committee, a group of British Members of Parliament, described the pain and distress caused to patients through a lack of access to dentistry as “totally unacceptable in the 21st century.”