Frustrated, let down and angry that s how I felt reading the news this week that some NHS patients may have to wait for up to three years to see a dentist.
The NHS dental system was once something to be proud of, but now it is in full-scale crisis, a shadow of its former self.
This week s report by Healthwatch England found that even emergency cases can face a six-week wait. Let s not forget that these people may have pain arising from an abscess, an infection or a broken tooth some of the most excruciating sources of pain it s possible to have.
Health Minister asks hospital board why it should not be sacked
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How a year of Covid wrecked Britons teeth
With millions missing routine check-ups in lockdown, experts fear the nation s dental health is a ticking timebomb
Sales of DIY dentistry kits have risen 87 per cent
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Early last August I was doing my civic duty and eating out to help out when, upon biting down on what should have been an innocuous cod steak, I heard an unwelcome crunch.
It was my first meal out in what felt like a million years – a birthday lunch for a close friend – and I wasn’t about to let a mere dental emergency ruin our big day out.
4CA launches weekly current affairs show hosted by former LNP politician Gavin King
Former journalist and Queensland state politician, Gavin King, has a new radio show on Grant Broadcasters’ 4CA in Cairns.
The King Review will air at midday on Fridays and 10am on Sundays, and will “dig deep into a wide variety of topics and issues facing the region and ask the tough questions of a range of guests, including local, statewide and national heavy hitters in business, politics and the community”, Grant Broadcasters said.
The show had a six-week run in October last year in the lead-up to the Queensland state election.