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mexico1970 said:
Took me 4 month to get one, brilliant they are too. It's a crying shame people can't get seen.
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Metalblue is spot on about the reasons.

Dentists don't make money if they do treatment on the NHS. If you have two fillings, they get paid the same as if you had only one done.

When I had my emergency appointment they didn't do an x-ray, just looked in my mouth, asked the standard questions for antibiotics prescriptions, and wrote up the prescription. Because of that they told me it was the molar not premolar that was pulped.

You can actually get the antibiotics online without needing a prescription, they just do a check. I proactively ordered some to keep the swelling down so I could keep my root canal appointment as scheduled.

If you can afford it, get yourself a private dentist or find a respectable clinic in a dental tourism hotspot.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Large areas of the country are now dental
deserts.

Private clinics simply stopped registering NHS patients.

I managed to get an emergency appointment for an abscess through 111 but the only available dentist was 25 miles away.
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That’s nasty that mate. Have you got registered a bit nearer now? If not might be worth seeing what the NHS can do as they have to register you and surely it’s got to be within a reasonable distance??

Dentistry has been the problem child of the NhS since inception but it’s one of the worst pains to suffer.
 
bluethrunthru said:
we were with My Dentist for a few years and the same practise in its previous guises. Last year we got letters saying they were going private. Mrs and Daughter signed up I said fuck 'em I'll sort something else - then I got another letter asking me what I was going to do and that I was due a check up. I told them and they said " oh its only dentist X that is fee paying we have an NHS dentist Y if you want to transfer to him" - I said yes and have continued with NHS treatment.

Mrs and Daughter fucking furious they didn't get that option/info so have gone to another practise themselves
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Probably a story repeated across the country. Very poor from the dentist.
 
mexico1970 said:
More and more people are now having cosmetic work, it's a bit of a pisser if you're nursing an abscess or a chipped tooth and can't get to a dentist because you haven't got one and are too poor to pay to go private.

I know doctors are feeling the pressure too but they wont do anything if it's dental, now if you can't get to see a dentist and the doctor wont see you then that's a big "Fuck You", some areas are worse than others depending on the dentists in your area.

What happened to children's teeth in the 60's was scandalous, filling healthy teeth for no reason other than money.
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The fact it ends up at the doctors’ doorstep is akin to how the police end up dealing with so many mental health issues.

People, rightly or wrongly, think the doctor has to treat them. That, unlike the dentist, he/she doesn’t have a choice. And, nearly everyone is signed up to a GP.

It’s why A&E is rammed with non-emergencies- you might have to wait but you’re guaranteed to be seen.

It’s economical madness. We plough billions into treating people who’ve jumped off the cliff rather than preventing them from getting to that summit in the first place.

The fact that caries remains the most common reason for hospital admissions in children aged between six and ten years - and that rates for children and young people living in the most deprived communities are nearly 3.5 times that of those living in the most affluent should be a matter of national shame.
 
metalblue said:
That’s nasty that mate. Have you got registered a bit nearer now? If not might be worth seeing what the NHS can do as they have to register you and surely it’s got to be within a reasonable distance??
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I registered as a private patient at the clinic I used to be an NHS patient. It's 15 minutes walk.

They didn't have to input any new details but still charged the new patient sign-up fee on top, the cheeky bastards.

I lost that previous registration because I hadn't kept up the minimum check- ups. So my own fault rather there.

I didn't use the NHS register thingy but through searches on the NHS dentist directly there wasn't a dental clinic offering new sign-ups nearby. Not in my town. Not in the neighbouring town (9 miles away). And ironically not in the clinic I had the emergency appointment at.
 
johnnytapia said:
The fact it ends up at the doctors’ doorstep is akin to how the police end up dealing with so many mental health issues.

People, rightly or wrongly, think the doctor has to treat them. That, unlike the dentist, he/she doesn’t have a choice. And, nearly everyone is signed up to a GP.

It’s why A&E is rammed with non-emergencies- you might have to wait but you’re guaranteed to be seen.

It’s economical madness. We plough billions into treating people who’ve jumped off the cliff rather than preventing them from getting to that summit in the first place.

The fact that caries remains the most common reason for hospital admissions in children aged between six and ten years - and that rates for children and young people living in the most deprived communities are nearly 3.5 times that of those living in the most affluent should be a matter of national shame.
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It just isn't working, is more money the answer I don't know. Sometimes you get the slight inkling that the people who make the decisions just don't care.
 
www.bbc.co.uk

Simon Clarke's call for Rishi Sunak to go sparks backlash

Several ex-cabinet ministers criticise Sir Simon Clarke, after he says Rishi Sunak should be replaced as PM.
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A dodgy **** asking another dodgy **** to fuck off. Do us a favour Sunak and let the people tell you to fuck off.
 
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