The East Yorkshire seaside town where 地元のs have to wait NINE YEARS to see an NHS dentist: 地元のs trying to join the only 外科 are stuck on waiting 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of 8,500 and 訴える手段／行楽地ing to DIY dentistry in desperation

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地元のs from an East Yorkshire seaside town 直面する a nine-year wait to see an NHS dentist, which has led to some 訴える手段／行楽地ing to?DIY dentistry.

患者s in Bridlington were 軍隊d to travel to Turkey for 治療 and use superglue and a plastic 道具 bought from アマゾン to 直す／買収する，八百長をする a 栄冠を与える.

Another 犠牲者 of the waiting 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） スキャンダル, Alex Gray, from nearby Lincolnshire, was even 軍隊d to pull out six of his teeth with pliers.

People trying to join the only NHS dentist in Bridlington have been told there are 8,500 people on the waiting 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） and it will take around eight to nine years to get an 任命.

The mydentist practice is the only one 供給するing NHS dentistry in the seaside town - 全住民 35,000 - after two others shut their doors for good at the end of 2022.

The only other 外科, Bridlington Dental Studio, only 扱う／治療するs 私的な 患者s.?

居住（者）s （人命などを）奪う，主張するd it had a waiting 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） '10 pages of A4 long'.

David Moore travelled to Turkey for dental work. He was scheduled to have a broken tooth 取って代わるd, but the 私的な dentist he used の近くにd 負かす／撃墜する

David Moore travelled more than 1,600 miles to go to Turkey for 治療

When lorry driver Wayne Campbell moved 支援する to the town six months ago, he 選ぶd to stay on the 調書をとる／予約するs of his old dentist in Warwickshire, after failing to find an NHS dentist.

He said: 'Whenever I need a check-up or any work doing, I have to travel 負かす／撃墜する to Rugby, which is 概略で a three-hour 運動.'

Mr Campbell's wife and their five children were at a different practice which has shut 負かす／撃墜する.

They are desperate to join a practice in Scarborough, nearly 20 miles away.

He said: 'They said there's still an 極端に long wait and they don't know when we can get in.

'I didn't realise how bad it 現実に was. I thought it would be a few months we'd have to wait.'

地元の mother Emma and her nine-year-old son Dexter were also left without a dentist when Bridlington's Bupa practice shut in November 2022.

She said: 'I went in one day and they just told me "All the dentists have left". I've just been left 流浪して ever since.'

Emma, who recently needed 緊急 治療 to 除去する a tooth, said she was on 'a waiting 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）, for a waiting 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）' in Scarborough and had friends even worse off.

'I know one person who rang an 緊急 dentist and they ended up in Doncaster,' said Emma.?

'I have a friend who kept her dentist in Manchester. If you move here, you just don't let your dentist go.'

She recently 設立する an NHS dentist in 船体 for her son Dexter who is type 1 diabetic and 定期的に needs to drink glucose. At his first 任命, he needed five fillings.

'It's heart-breaking. It's desperate that he's waited until he's nearly 10 to get a dentist,' 追加するd Emma.

David Moore travelled to Turkey for dental work. He was scheduled to have a broken tooth 取って代わるd, but the 私的な dentist he used の近くにd 負かす／撃墜する.

Mr Moore's 治療, which 含むd the 修理 to the tooth and two implants, flights and hotel accommodation, cost around £2,000

The mydentist in?Bridlington, the only NHS dentist 外科 in the seaside town

People trying to join the only NHS dentist in Bridlington (pictured) have been told there are 8,500 people on the waiting 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） and it will take around eight to nine years to get an 任命

He was unable to find a new NHS or 私的な dentist 'within 30 miles' of his home in the East Yorkshire seaside town.

His 治療, which 含むd the 修理 to the tooth and two implants, flights and hotel accommodation, cost around £2,000 - but it was 'a fraction' of what he would have paid in the UK and he did not have to wait for 治療.

'I remember I had an implant about nine years ago and that was as much as the whole of this together,' he said.

Antony Watson, also from Bridlington, is not 登録（する）d with an NHS dentist and said he could not afford 私的な 治療, so he 取って代わるd a broken 栄冠を与える with a £3.99 dental 道具 he bought off アマゾン.

His tooth had broken more than 20 years ago. It was 栄冠を与えるd, but broke again when he bit into a cookie.

He 'definitely couldn't afford' to 支払う／賃金 for 私的な 治療, 軍隊ing him to look どこかよそで.

Mr Watson searched the internet and 設立する a 範囲 of home dentistry 道具s on 申し込む／申し出.?

'I 選ぶd the best one for me, which was probably one of the cheapest but also one of the easiest ones to do, and I thought yup, next day 配達／演説／出産, I'll have that,' he said.

The 道具 含む／封じ込めるd a 20g 捕らえる、獲得する of plastic beads.

Mr Watson explained: 'You boil a kettle, you put the beads into the water. The beads then go together and go real soft and （疑いを）晴らす. You then 形態／調整 it around your tooth and let it 冷静な／正味の 負かす／撃墜する.

'With the size of my tooth, it took five beads.'

Mr Watson said he used 最高の glue to 安全な・保証する it in place.

にもかかわらず accidentally gluing a finger, Mr Watson - who said he had fallen off the 調書をとる／予約するs of an NHS dentist several years ago after 行方不明の 'a couple of 任命s' - 主張するd he would not hesitate to repeat the 過程.'

一方／合間, retired roofer Alex Gray 訴える手段／行楽地d to pulling out six of his own teeth, using pliers and painkillers.

'Teeth don't last forever,' said Mr Gray. 'I can't be the only one who has to take out their own teeth but what else can I do?'

When a tooth 'starts to 落ちる out' he takes painkillers and 'waits until it goes numb', before using pliers.

He had been unable to find an NHS dentist after moving to Lincolnshire six years ago.

'I paid my 国家の 保険 all my working life and I can't see a dentist?' he 追加するd.

The mydentist practice 供給するs NHS 治療 for some 存在するing 患者s, but was now only taking on 私的な work.

A spokesperson said: 'As the only NHS provider in Bridlington, we are aware of the high 需要・要求する for NHS dental care in t he area.

The mydentist practice is the only one 供給するing NHS dentistry in the seaside town - 全住民 35,000 - after two others shut their doors for good at the end of 2022 (在庫／株 image)

'While our practice team continues to work hard to 扱う／治療する as much of the 地元の community as they can, we are 現在／一般に at 十分な capacity.

'にもかかわらず a 国家の 不足 of dentists, we are 活発に 新採用するing new NHS clinicians to join the team in the hopes of growing this capacity in the 未来.'

NHS Humber, which took over （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限ing dental services in East Yorkshire last April, said: 'We have not yet been able to attract new dental providers into Bridlington, にもかかわらず our best 成果／努力s.?

'We are continuing to work with 存在するing providers to 増加する 接近 where we can and will continue to try and attract new 準備／条項 through the 調達 大勝する.

'We are working hard with the profession and 地元の dental practices to continue to 改善する services.?

'However, more needs to be done 国家的に to support ICBs in 配達するing this 協議事項.'