A woman desperate for dental treatment has travelled to Turkey after claiming she couldn't see a UK-based dentist unless she paid £19,000 and took out a second mortgage. Sally Murphy lives in Wirral, which is an area that has seen one of the biggest drops in NHS dentists, losing 10 per cent of the dentist workforce in the last five years.
Sally, 58, says the problem arose during Covid-19 when she was removed as an NHS patient from her old dentist. She was unable to find another dental practice that would take her on as a patient.
As reported by Echo, Mrs Murphy researched various options including going private. However she was shocked to discover the private dentist route would cost her more than £19,000.
