A woman had to pull her own rotten tooth out with a set of pliers despite calling more than 100 NHS and private dentists trying to get an appointment. Tobye Spencer, 57, from Poole in Dorset, had a ...

Children needing rotting teeth surgically removed in hospitals is still rising according to new NHS data branded “horrific” by dentists. There were 56,000 teeth extraction operations in England during ...

When Bobby Moske went to a community clinic a few years ago with a toothache, he couldn’t find a dentist in Marin County willing to take Medicaid to do a root canal. Marin Community Clinics referred ...

Children and young people in Wigan are more likely to be admitted to hospital to remove decaying teeth than their peers across England, new figures show.