Dave Morthorpe last went to the dentist more than four years ago. He got two teeth extracted and the dentist delivered a grim prognosis. “He said out of all the teeth I do have, I had seven that could be saved with immediate treatment. The rest are either rotted or broken away at the gum line.”
Morthorpe, who lives in the outback town of Katherine in the Northern Territory, had to tell the dentist he could not afford to save those seven teeth. He’d just paid $480 for the 20 minutes it took to extract the two teeth.
