Forced into Private Dental Care

The citizens advice bureau has stated that more than 4.7 million people in Britain have been forced to use private dental care because their local NHS dentists have refused to see them.

Dentist where encourage to sign a new contract offered by the government in 2006 which (according to the Dentists) offered increased workload and less money. Since then, 1 in 10 Dentists have stopped offering NHS dental care all together.

Private dental care costs are over double that of the NHS, with this the number of private dental insurance has risen dramamtically over since 2006.