The Real Cost: The cost of NHS dental treatment has risen sharply — a crown or denture now costs £332, up from £198 in 2009 — while access to NHS dental care has collapsed. Before the pandemic, just over half of adults in England had seen an NHS dentist in the past two years. Today it's four in ten. Around 14 million adults now can't get the NHS dental care they need.
In 2022, the BBC contacted nearly 7,000 NHS practices. Ninety-one percent were not taking new adult patients. In parts of Devon, Leeds, Norfolk and Lancashire, researchers couldn't find a single NHS dentist taking on anyone at all. Seventy children a day are having teeth pulled under general anaesthetic because of decay. The gap between what NHS dental patients are being charged and the service they are actually receiving has never been wider.
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