Is it true that people in the UK are pulling their own teeth?

Question

Is it true that people in the UK are pulling their own teeth because their government run health care.. Is running the dentist away and you have to wait mounths to get a simple procedure done... I would really like to hear the truth on this ... The demacrats are tring to implement a government program here in the US.. And the repudlicans are fighting it .. I have ins through my work I also have dental and diability.. I really dont want to pay more taxes for our government to steal..

Answer 1

You had a government like ours love.You would be pulling your own teeth.Our dental(NHS) service due to meddling is really

messed up.A lot of dentists left to go private.Leaving a shortage

Import Polish etc who work to the rules the idiots say.Nothing

wrong with their work or effort.But being in EEC they know they

can come in -Go private and earn more money.It is easier and cheaper for me to fly to Romania -Bulgaria-Poland and now a

7 day trip to Malta.To get any or whole dental work.Simply sit

in the chair for the day go back the next or until you have had done what needs to be done.Quickly,efficiently and a third cheaper.Plus a holiday.

Answer 2

yes in some places it is difficult to get an NHS dentist, but i do not know anyone that has pulled their own teeth.

Answer 3

yes because there are a lack of dentists taking NHS patients back to victorian times we go!

Answer 4

The NHS is one of the greatest systems ever. Yes, so there aren't enough dentists and some people in this country are stupid enough to pull out their own teeth, but just because you have health insurance, it doesn't mean you will always be treated under it.. I recently saw the film 'Sicko' and I really, really think America should have a similar system to the NHS. Yes, so standards here are slipping a little, but when the government isn't paying enough and the staff are given tough targets, of course they will. No, waiting lists for dentists aren't months for simple procedures, it is just very hard to find an NHS dentist in the first place. Yes, you will be taxed more, but the government will not be stealing it! They will be using money to provide a health system you can use throughout your life, whenever you need it. Not just if you are in a flashy job which gives you insurance, but even if you are homeless, impoverished, or simply a visitor in that country. It is a MUCH fairer system, and if you are simply too posh to use such a system, I am sure your work will still give you insurance for use in a private hospital.

Answer 5

Well, I live in the US, I have health care from my employer, but no dental because I dropped it since it was too expensive. I found out that I was being charged much more because I had dental coverage. The idiot charged me $1500. for a crown that fell off in 2 weeks. when I went back, he glued it back on with super glue. Now I go to a dentist that doesn't take dental insurance, gives me better care but charges me much less and I'm ahead of the game. Dental insurance is a rip-off & so are the dentists that participate.

Answer 6

yes it is true. the UK system isn't the best and we probably can't guarantee our government would come up with a good system either since everything else like Medicare and Social Security is broken. the problem is one can't just go and put in a government h/c program because what would happen is all the businesses who offer benefits would dump them. why should company pay for h/c for it's employees when the gov't will do it, right? they can save all that cash and go into profits. the gov't needs to set policy to push business to provide the benefit, if they don't, then they should have to pay higher taxes to cover the cost of the gov't program for thier employees. the whole point is for people who aren't working (children esp.) or whose company doesn't offer benefits to get h/c. I'm in the situation that i'm self-employed but don't make enough money to buy a policy. i get sick, i can't go to the doctor, can't afford it. There's millions of people with no coverage and that's the goal to fix....but our gov't will probably s***w it up and make the problem worse...i agree.

Answer 7

If you wait long enough they fall out on there own.Pulling teeth has been going on since day dot in UK

Answer 8

I can well believe it...

I missed a dental appointment 5 years ago due to being stuck at work (I was the senior manager on duty and did call to cancel the day before), when I rang the dentist for a new appointment they basically said "sorry cant treat you anymore as you did not turn up to last one".

Anyway I have had to go without dental care since then up until 6 months ago when a new practise opened locally and I got in, now I'm due for another check up and guess what no dentist!! No explanation or anything just packed up and gone.

And this despite paying for dental care is what the UK's dental system has become. If I want emergency treatment, I'm looking at an 80 mile round trip and even then your not guaranteed a place as it's 1st come 1st served.

Absolutely ridiculous in this age of modern medicine, I'm just glad I care for my teeth constantly.

Answer 9

i am lucky enough to have a nhs dentist, plus having work done at the dental hospital.. but yes it is true,  i am one of the lucky ones

Answer 10

yes i know people who have done it and i know of a farmer who pulls teeth for £10. England is now  a 3rd world country.

Answer 11

apparently some people have pulled their own teeth out.  very few i think. a lot are suffering dental agony.  some people have glued a  crown back in place. this is because of a serious shortage of NHS dentists.

i personally pay for private treatment. its expensive but while im able to pay i will  (im not rich i work for a very low wage) ,rather than hope to be treated by NHS. private dentistry is far better than NHS. i get treated with kindness and consideration. a NHS patient is treated like cattle. uk people still believe that if you need treatment of any kind, it will be provided by NHS. not true any more . we pay for eye tests and glasses etc. thats ok. but lots of people cant or wont pay for a  dentist.  i dont like it but we/ everyone has to face facts. pay full price / get insurance. or suffer because the NHS dentist service does not exist any more.

Answer 12

Yes they are a friend of mine pulled hers out 2 weeks ago she doesnt have a dentist so she went to a local one that she's not registered with he told her he would take her tooth out for £60 but as she isnt registered and he was on his dinner break he asked for an extra £15!!

Because it was so wobbly she went home and did the old string round and pulled it urgh i couldn't do it but i'm lucky i work at a dentist!

Answer 13

Yes people in the UK are pulling their own teeth. And thre truth is it is because the incumbent Labour Government have spent the last ten years piling billions into the NHS, but without achieving any results whatsoever. Now people in the UK are being denied appropriate treatments, patients are dying in hospitals through infection and people are, getting back to the point, pulling their own teeth out.

In the meantime, the administration of the NHS has increased tenfold under Labour resulting in funds being spent on pen-pushers and not nurses, on chief executive's pay and not midwives and consultant's fees and not primary care. It has gone beyond a joke in  this country.

The UK once had a free health system that we could be proud of. This Labour government have destroyed it.

VOTE CONSERVATIVE FOR A BETTER NHS!

Answer 14

you got that right

Answer 15

I heard the same story about those poor, socialized people in the UK being forced to do their own dental work. That NEVER happens in the USA! Everybody here has perfect teeth and we smile all the time. I also heard that in countries with socialized medicine that some people have actually removed their own appendix and have performed brain surgery at home! What horrors they must there those countries providing free health care to their citizens.

(Note to typical Yahoo! user: The above is sarcasm, have somebody explain it to you before you report it)

These kinds of "scare" stories are becoming more common as it appears that a Democrat may soon become President and they're all pushing for universal health care. I'm just wondering why this gets so much attention when Micheal Moore's movie "Sicko" about health care problems in the US was basically ignored.

Answer 16

I've seriously considered giving myself tests and surgery before but I'm a white American on Medi-Cal. They could help me but our foreign doctors take their own kind first. They never get around to me. Plus where would I get the supplies?  If I had the money I could buy a doctor or technician. So it's a vicious circle.  It isn't whether or not the government runs a system. It's whether the people at the local level have ethics. If they followed the rules and took people first come first serve without thought of financial gain (cuz they get a salary) and don't discriminate against the natives or certain racial groups or whatever, it wouldn't be a problem. Most things can be waited for. But you could have insurance and government medical and still not get taken care of because people are stupid. They have no quality control in hiring and training. They hire stupid racist incompetent people who put their petty feelings ahead of sick people. It's not about how much or how little coverage one has or how long the line is. It's all about ethics and management. It could be done and done right if the right rules, checks and balances were put in place.