thats the worse pain

do you know a good dentist??

Amazingly, I do have a dentist, ut even crisis cases have to wait over 3 weeks to see one

The painkillers are zonking me out...

you should be seen in 24 hours! we usually see people the same day!

isn't there an emergency dental service? We have one in our area...you poor thing!

It's really bad round here, not enough dentists. Emergency ones are over 30 miles from here.

bugger. even if you rang us a new patient we'd see you before 3 weeks i'm sure!

stitchnknitt, It's a bit of a long way for me to drive to get to you

Kid you not, NHS services in Lincolnshire are collapsing. Some already have.

she could teleport Happibun over to here and take her to our emergency service *sigh*

Used to live in Lancs BryonyConstantine. It is good your way.

it's not what it was...many dentists here got greedy, too

since the goverment changed our contract a couple of years ago, its got really hard

stitchnknitt How do you mean?

we aren't able to do as much treatment as we'd like or see as many patients because of the targets we have to meet

So preventative gets in the way of crisis management?

this might help i certainly don't think the problems are because dentists are greedy

hope you are feeling better

that page doesn't explain why I've seen so many NHS dentists go private...one ex-NHS dentist kicked out all his NHS patients...

and then we saw him arrive at his sister's house (in my parents' road) driving a shiny new Jaguar...no greed, eh?

obviously plenty of dentists still take NHS patients but that guy's antics made my family quite cynical...