English Dental Care System Not So Bright!
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 6:23 am by James · Filed under Uncategorized, James' Perspective, Dental Insurance
This recent Yahoo! News article shows that the future of the National Health Service dental care system in England is not so bright.
English ‘pull own teeth’ as dental service decays
Falling numbers of state dentists in England has led to some people taking extreme measures, including extracting their own teeth, according to a new study released Monday.
More typically, a lack of publicly-funded dentists means that growing numbers go private: 78 percent of private patients said they were there because they could not find a National Health Service (NHS) dentist, and only 15 percent because of better treatment.
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