More than one in four adults in England are now estimated to have an unmet dental need as the total increased by one million last year
Desperate patients unable to access an NHS dentist have surged to a record 12 million, new data shows.
More than one in four adults in England are now estimated to have an unmet dental need as the total increased by one million last year and more patients report yanking out their own teeth.
Government data suggests over six million tried and failed to get an appointment in the past two years and 4.4 million did not even bother trying to get an appointment as they believed there was no chance of one.
An estimated 1.1 million patients were put off by the rising fees for NHS dental care while 600,000 were languishing on a waiting list.