Dentistry Scotland: Patients resorting to “barbaric” DIY dentistry as examinations fall by 25 per cent since pre-pandemic era
by Ameliasco
Dentistry Scotland: Patients resorting to “barbaric” DIY dentistry as examinations fall by 25 per cent since pre-pandemic era
by Ameliasco
6 comments
Maybe if there wasn’t a two year wait list for every fucking NHS dentist in the country we wouldn’t need to.
I know of 3 different practices that used to arrange 6-monthly checkups that have now moved to just annual checkups
That and the rest of the “59% [that] have reduced their NHS work” *surely* accounts for the lower number of examinations?
Reading through the carefully selected stats, they don’t paint the picture of a populous turning their back on dental hygiene, and certainly not due to unaffordability either – it reads as a LibDem grievance fishing exercise imo
“Data released by Public Health Scotland shows that 5,200,865 people were registered with an NHS dentist by December 31 2023, equivalent to 94.9 per cent of the Scottish population.”
How awful.
Remember the private sector can do everything “more efficiently” than the NHS. So we should privatise more of it.
Once Apon a Time there was this thing, called
The National Health Service or NHS
Rich or poor could enjoy quality dentistry – that was the dream
Phoned my nhs dentist in July about a filling that had came out. Appointment in October. October comes. Finally, I can get this sorted. In the chair literally two minutes and get a temporary filling. Made another appointment to get a permanent one. January.
You don’t get checkups anymore and you certainly don’t get non essential treatment like cleaning/scale polish etc.