Many people in the UK are struggling to access adequate dental care to help keep teeth healthy. NHS dentistry is in decline and dental hygiene poverty on the rise. Budget cuts are contributing to “dental deserts” across the country where there’s minimal or no NHS dental health care provision and private care is unaffordable for many.
Lockdowns during the pandemic also prevented many from accessing medical care including NHS dentistry. It’s no surprise, then, that the last few years have led to reports of people resorting to desperate measures to deal with dental woes.
