Pulling teeth

Many thanks to those readers of this blog who have written to me commiserating with the dental problems I talked about in my last post. Treatment is still ongoing. But it seems that I am lucky in having a dentist who offered me the choice of root canal treatment rather than an extraction. Because it is reported today that many dentists now extract teeth unnecessarily as they receive the same amount from the NHS as for more lengthy and expensive treatments such as root canal surgery. NHS denti