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Dentists are pulling ‘healthy’ and treatable teeth to profit from implants, experts warn

(KFF Health News) — Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, and others were stained or crooked. Ashamed, she smiled with lips pressed closed. Her dentist offered to fix most of her teeth with root ...
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Woman describes pulling her own teeth after seven-year wait for dentist

Seven years to visit the dentist was simply too long to wait for Linda Colla, who was forced to pull out her own teeth due to the pain. Colla, 75, began experiencing problems with gum disease and her ...
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Some UK patients who can’t see a dentist take matters into their own hands

Emergency dental care can be so hard to come by in the UK’s National Health Service that some patients have resorted to pulling out their own teeth. Healthwatch, an independent patient watchdog in the ...