Access to NHS Dentists

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 10:46 pm on 12 September 2017.

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Photo of Judith Cummins Judith Cummins Opposition Whip (Commons) 10:46, 12 September 2017

Absolutely.

More disturbingly, 40% of practices were unwilling to take children as NHS patients. Millions of people each and every year are being left without access to an NHS dentist. The human cost of this crisis is huge. Families, parents and young children are suffering horrific, lifelong and extreme damage to their teeth and to their oral health. Stories of people resorting to pulling out their own teeth are increasingly commonplace. Images of young children—toddlers—with mouths full of rotten teeth are less and less of a rarity.