The NY Times reports that some people are pulling their own teeth rather than waiting for the dentist to do it in Great Britain.
But the problem is serious. Kelly’s predicament is not just the result of cigarettes and possibly indifferent oral hygiene, though he said he is careful to brush once a day. Instead, it is due in large part to the deficiencies in Britain’s state-financed dental service, which, stretched beyond its limit, no longer serves everyone and no longer even pretends to try.
Nor is the level of care what it might be. The system, critics say, encourages state dentists to see too many patients in too short a time and to cut corners by, for instance, extracting teeth rather than performing root canals.
Claire Dacey, a nurse for a private dentist, said that when she worked in the National Health Service one dentist in the practice performed cleanings in five minutes flat.
Coming soon to a single-payer universal health care system near you.
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Dan, good post. I think it is every Canadian and English citizen, along with their American relatives’, duty to tell the horror stories that each family has. My family has three dead relatives to date, thanks to the Canadian “health” care system.