Seven years to visit the dentist was simply too long to wait for Linda Colla, who was forced to pull out her own teeth due to the pain. Colla, 75, began experiencing problems with gum disease and her ...

People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. Those who experience a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain should be able to ...

A lack of NHS dentists have been people resort to extreme measures (Getty Images) Patients are resorting to self-treatment, including pulling their own teeth or using unprescribed antibiotics, due to ...

Emergency dental care can be so hard to come by in the UK’s National Health Service that some patients have resorted to pulling out their own teeth. Healthwatch, an independent patient watchdog in the ...

The UK is facing a deepening crisis in NHS dentistry, with some Brits pulling out their own teeth due to the inability to secure urgent dental care, according to patient watchdog Healthwatch England.

Cllr Lorna Dupré (Liberal Democrat) said: “Those who cannot get NHS dental treatment are either going private, or they are going without, or they are in extremes pulling teeth out with pliers, and ...