“The crisis in NHS dentistry is so bad that a charity set up to run clinics in poorer countries is now spending more time working in the UK.”
You can’t even say “the UK is becoming a third-world country” because here in Brazil we have excellent dentistry, for free, in our public healthcare system. If you have the money to pay for premium service, we also have some of the best dental care in the world. Also, comparatively few of our dentists go on lion-hunting safaris in South Africa.
It’s funny to think that back when I was a teenager my dream was to move to the UK or to the US. How times have changed. Living in the Global South sucks but it’s great, too.
Canadian healthcare also uses the “teeth are premium bones” model and unless you have the best workplace extended healthcare ever you’re not getting 100% coverage from work.
Hey random question does the mouth have anything to do with overall health?
Same with Finland ever since the 90s. These days you can tell someones economic status by their teeth, just like in the 1900s. It’s great, all this progress./s
I’ve read that tooth decay/unclean mouth can lead to Alzheimers.
That same plaque can also accumulate in the blood vessels and cause circulatory diseases.
A tooth infection can straight-up kill you via sepsis.
Hey random question does the mouth have anything to do with overall health?
yes, it’s where you place your health-enhancing vape
NHS dentistry is still too fuckin expensive, especially for kids with shit teeth because of malnutrition that’s going out the whazzoo on this shitass island…
I wasn’t able to see a dentist during COVID when one of my teeth split in half to the root. I would stuff the gap with a temporary filling every month or so for 2 years until i woke up with an abscess and had it extracted. Two extractions later and I dont have much of a choice for implants or bridges since I’m way beyond saving now. It’s just shit.
undeveloping country
Currently experiencing this, although I will say you can still get very cheap dental care (£30) for dental emergencies, you just have to jump through some hoops AND WAIT UNTIL ITS AN EMERGENCY.
It’s facing a similar fate to the rest of the NHS - whereby the NHS outsources to private sector, because the NHS workers get paid so little in comparison that there just aren’t as many NHS dentists anymore.
The problem for me isn’t necessarily the cost of NHS dentistry - which is of course more than before but not crazy - it’s that in urban centres, there’s a 9 month waitlist to get in as a new NHS patient (because it makes the private companies less money). So then you’re forced to go private, where pricing is extortionate.
Also, because the new NHS model means NHS has to ‘stand on its own two feet’ (make money), they often rent out their dental theatres to private companies at short notice, taking priority over NHS patients. These companies have the manpower (ex NHS dentists) but not the facilities, so they rent out the facilities and offload the cost to the consumer!
How fucking backwards is that! We’ve got NHS dentists in NHS dental surgeries, making money through private sector! What the fuck!
Where are you getting £30 emergency dental care?
Go on the NHS dentists website page that has all the costs of the different bands, and scroll down to ‘urgent’.
https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/how-much-nhs-dental-treatment-costs/
Not everything is covered but a lot of stuff is - one of them being getting a tooth pulled out which I’m gonna need soon for a wisdom tooth I think. Family member managed to call 111 and get the same thing done for the urgent dental cost, so hopefully I manage to get the same if it comes down to it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BritishSuccess/s/bsOP1DzgEU
A recent Reddit comment confirms the same. Worth a shot.
Thanks for the tip.
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