‘I leave the country to get a dentist appointment’

We asked Londoners how easy it was to get an NHS dentist appointment, and what they think of the current system.

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00:00How easy do you find it to get an NHS dentist and what do you think about people having to go

00:05private to get an appointment? Yeah I mean I actually go back to Ireland to go to my dentist

00:12because it's easier to get an appointment than it is over here but I do know people who really

00:17struggle and then it's so expensive and it should be something you'd hope that is more accessible

00:22to people but yeah so I go back to Ireland. They always hassle you to get a hygienist appointment

00:32and they don't offer you any cleaning or anything on that standard thing and if you ring up with

00:36just one problem they'll only look at that and won't give you a checkup so they don't check up

00:41with your whole teeth and you've made the effort maybe to get their time off work and so for the

00:49the thing that's supposed to incorporate everything on that first level you barely get the minimum.