Get Your Few Remaining Teeth Into Dentistry
THE Express says more than half the British population have teeth missing. The Daily Express says on its front page that “11 MILLION CAN’T AFFORD DENTIST.”
Anorak wonders if this is less to do with us eating too many sweets and this being a nation of innovators – the Star features former chicken slaughterer David Allardice holding the pliers he used to extract his bothersome teeth – than supply and demand and bad image?
More dentists would mean the price to consultations and treatments coming down as the business becomes more competitive. It follows that more Britons would visit them.
Unless, of course, there is something about dentists that puts us off seeking them out?
Dentistry has much to recommend it. It is, along with being a High Court judge, a rugby union referee and Coleen McLoughlin, one of the few professions in which you can talk without fear of being interrupted.
As for image, we urge one of leading soap operas to put aside this fascination with doctors and introduce a dentist, preferably one both cheep and cheerful.
Meanwhile, Express readers can wonder what has happened to so many “missing” teeth and is this is part of a huge Government cover up. We should be told…
Posted: 26th, February 2008 | In: Tabloids Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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February 26th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
When I moved recently, I was unable to find an NHS dentist in the area and had to go private as I was in agony one weekend. After spending nearly £500 on root canal treatment, my tooth had to be removed anyway. I was charged, yet again, for this and quoted over £1,000 for bridgework. Nice work if you can get it.
In future, I am travelling back to my NHS dentist.
My missing tooth has joined the mountain of missing teeth, thanks to the Government.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
If you move house in the UK you can’t get a new dentist, so you have to travel to the previous one. Some people are now travelling hundreds of miles to their dentist. This means that they haven’t signed off from the dentist, which in turn means the person who has moved into their old house can’t get a dentist. so they have to travel to thier old one etc………..etc………..
At the very least the transport must be pushing carbon emmisions through the roof, it is all unneccesary.