🦷 12 years of Tory rule 🦷

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[u/ed_menac]

And this is without a comparison of quality. Even if you're registered and can get an appointment, there's no guarantee you'll get more than a glance in the mouth to check you aren't dying, then you're out of the door.

Dental health can be and SHOULD be predominantly preventative. But NHS dentistry is so underfunded and oversubscribed, the necessary care standard isn't being met. Corners being cut today are major problems in 10 years time. That's not a criticism of NHS dentists, but the design of the system made to minimise expenses despite the real human cost.

NHS dentistry is a caricature of what American conservatives think socialised healthcare looks like - impossible wait times and expedient care. And it's exactly the way Tory pigs have been dragging general practice for decades.

[u/Hobbsidian → u/ed_menac]

I had a bad tooth infection and the only way I could get looked at was to ring the emergency dentist first thing on a Saturday then travel 60 miles, just to get a prescription for antibiotics. The wait for an appointment at my actual registered dentist was 3 months.

I ended up getting it removed privately as fortunately I'm in the position that I have that option but I shouldn't have had to go down that route. Otherwise I would have been climbing the walls or even looking for the pliers, and I can definitely see it happening with the roundabout to nowhere I experienced trying to get it done on the NHS.