NHS dentistry reforms have only made matters worse, and the private sector is no better.

Dentistry, an industry in decay
Article in the Sunday Telegraph

Extract:

"Last Wednesday, news broke that the Government's recent contract with NHS dentists, introduced in 2006, has been such a failure that nearly a million fewer patients are visiting the dentist, and the number of crowns, bridges and dentures being fitted has fallen by more than half, while the number of extractions has risen. An estimated 7.4 million people cannot find an NHS dentist to do elementary dental work such as fillings.

At the other end of the scale, looking in the mirror and asking why we don't look more like George Clooney and Julia Roberts, more and more of us are paying huge sums to private dentists to correct a lifetime's worth of NHS neglect, often ending up worse off than when we started."