Three teeth started to work loose, and it was not very comfortable. It was painful to eat, so I had to pull them out. 'They were getting looser and looser, so one at a time, I took them out.

Linda Colla, 76, was forced to remove her own teeth after she couldn't find an NHS dentist to take her on and described it as ...

A woman has shared how she took out three of her own teeth after waiting nearly seven years on an NHS dental waiting list.

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A woman from Devon says she had no choice but to pull out three of her own teeth because she could not get an NHS dentist.

But words are meaningless. "People are absolutely desperate and they are pulling out their own teeth in a lot of extreme cases." A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said ...