There's something wrong about having to travel hundred miles across Europe to get your teeth fixed.
I admire Stoke-on-Trent nurse Christine Hughes for her initiative in getting on a plane to Hungary to save £20,000, so she can have a million dollar smile.
But why should she have to leave Britain at all? It's a disgrace that the treatment in Hungary cost £9,970 compared with the whopping £30,000 she faced paying here.
I accept that it might be more expensive here, but £21,000 more expensive?! Without sounding like Victor Meldrew, the dental service in this country is just not what it used to be.
There was a time when we could all get quailty NHS treatment. Now most of us have to fight tooth and nail (yes, that's the joke) to get our teeth seen.
Most dentists don't seem interested in the NHS or treating NHS patients. I've managed to retain NHS treatment but are made to feel like a low-life because I won't pay for private.
I probably could afford to pay, but it's my stand against a Government determined to consign NHS dental care to the history books.
The Government, of course, blames poor old Maggie Thatcher for our dental problems because she closed down dental training schools.
But she is an easy target. Poor old Maggie gets blamed for everything these days including the credit crunch, Third World poverty, cold weather and the fact that Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross need to be surgically removed from public life...
Anyway, if you want to feather the nest of some not-so-hard-up dentist in Budapest rather than paying for a second family Porsche for a dentist in Britain, pop along to The Sentinel...
I admire Stoke-on-Trent nurse Christine Hughes for her initiative in getting on a plane to Hungary to save £20,000, so she can have a million dollar smile.
But why should she have to leave Britain at all? It's a disgrace that the treatment in Hungary cost £9,970 compared with the whopping £30,000 she faced paying here.
I accept that it might be more expensive here, but £21,000 more expensive?! Without sounding like Victor Meldrew, the dental service in this country is just not what it used to be.
There was a time when we could all get quailty NHS treatment. Now most of us have to fight tooth and nail (yes, that's the joke) to get our teeth seen.
Most dentists don't seem interested in the NHS or treating NHS patients. I've managed to retain NHS treatment but are made to feel like a low-life because I won't pay for private.
I probably could afford to pay, but it's my stand against a Government determined to consign NHS dental care to the history books.
The Government, of course, blames poor old Maggie Thatcher for our dental problems because she closed down dental training schools.
But she is an easy target. Poor old Maggie gets blamed for everything these days including the credit crunch, Third World poverty, cold weather and the fact that Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross need to be surgically removed from public life...
Anyway, if you want to feather the nest of some not-so-hard-up dentist in Budapest rather than paying for a second family Porsche for a dentist in Britain, pop along to The Sentinel...
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