A dentist claims patients are having to make the “heartbreaking” choice over paying for dental care or putting food on the table.
David Andrew Griffiths, who works for Allport Dental Surgery, Birkenhead, which offers NHS and privately funded services, claims that some of his "patients in extreme cases are choosing between paying for dental care to get out of pain or putting food on the table". The 34-year-old believes that as a result of the ongoing pressures “dentists and dental nurses are simply leaving the profession entirely with no intentions of returning".
David, who is originally from Wavertree, told the ECHO: “The crisis is certainly having a negative impact. It is heartbreaking to see, on a daily basis, what was once an open-door profession, which could truly welcome patients who were in need, to one which is on its knees and has barely recovered from the restrictions post-covid.
