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Summary
Access to dental care in the UK is worsening as private fees for procedures like root canals (£775), tooth extractions (£435), and white fillings (£325) have risen by up to 32% since 2022.
The scarcity of NHS dentists is forcing patients to turn to expensive private care, leaving many unable to afford treatment.
Patient groups warn this trend risks deteriorating public oral health.
Rising operational costs, a nationwide dentist shortage, and underfunded NHS services are fueling the crisis, prompting calls for reforms and increased NHS investment.
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Exhibit 101294050683908 of why private health care is bad for society.
Britain saw the US and thought “they clearly don’t know what they’re doing. we’re smarter and will make private health insurance work”
Welcome to the financial threat of surviving!
What is dumber than watching something completely broken fail but choosing to do it anyway?
Bad oral health in the UK?
I wanted to make a joke about “What decade is this?” but I didn’t know which one to pick.
While it’s a joke, NHS funded dental care for under 18s in the UK has historically meant a lower incidence in children of missing or filled teeth than the US.
Those jokes were about pre-NHS dental care and lack thereof. My working-class British dad had teeth so bad that about 10 years after he retired, he and my mom went down to Costa Rica because a vacation to Costa Rica where he could get free dental care was cheaper than what he was going to have to pay in the U.S. Medicare also doesn’t cover dental and it would have cost $20,000 to fix all the problems that hadn’t been fixed when he was a kid. He had been in the U.S. since the 1960s, but it was always way too expensive to fix no matter what dental plan he was on.
For a long time, the NHS made those jokes no longer true.
They’re going to be true again.
People over here are starting to get the perfect bright white teeth that America popularised now. I hate it, looks so fake. We derisively call it “Turkey teeth” because they often fly to Turkey to get it done on the cheap.
These dentists are the worst sort of people, they think they have great business acumen making these profits but they really are just working a monopoly. If they truly are business orientated let them invent something and go market it and be an actual entrepreneur in the real world, if not go back to caring for people as they were trained to do and make enough money to live a comfortable life but not extort people.
If they truly are business orientated let them invent something and go market it and be an actual entrepreneur in the real world,
They’re going to do none of this, even if you did the hard work of writing all those words. No dentist wants to take his 9 years of schooling - or something equally ridiculous - and gamble his food security on a 99%-failure like every other startup. It’s a non-starter.
Yeah, they’re running extortion rackets, sure. But for any dentist who survived that gauntlet, let him cook. Don’t hate the playa`. Change the system and force them into a humane model.
its a highway robbery situation too. because dental issues can be life ruining, in the sense that you are basically in a permanaent irratiable bad mood because of irritation and pain. people are desperate for care and unable to get it.
How much does it cost to fly somewhere with affordable dental care?
