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A man who took his own life was suffering from depression after a failed dental procedure in Turkey left him without any teeth, an inquest has…

Almost a third of people in England now use private dentistry, with a sharp rise in the number of poorer households forced to pay for fillings…

Kyla Marks’s grandmother grew up in a small rural town in Mississippi where access to dental care was scarce—a gap that left her without most of…

When Jas attended the Spilt Milk music festival in Canberra in December, she didn’t expect to leave with a new, sparkly addition to her mouth: a…

Young people leaving care in England will receive free prescriptions, and dental and eye services up to their 25th birthday, the government has said.A pilot to…

People needing emergency dental care in England are being denied help from the NHS despite guidance saying that it should be available, in some cases resorting…

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In the 1960s, I trained as a dental auxiliary (later known as dental therapists). We were trained to fill in gaps in the school dental service…