The crisis in Scottish dentistry is growing ever deeper and it is posing a real danger to the nation’s health.

Generations of improvement is now in jeopardy with patients struggling to get treated on the NHS. Labour are right to warn of a two-tier system developing where only the rich will soon be able to afford regular visits to the dentist.

It goes completely against the founding vision of an NHS free at the point of need. Dentists are abandoning the NHS because they are fed up with the broken funding model.

This leaves patients with the stark choice of finding another NHS provider, which are few and far between, or paying privately. Dentists have been fed up for a long time that they are confined to providing the basics of dental care on the NHS.

The continuation of amalgam fillings on the NHS when many countries around the world have banned........

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