People in urgent need of dental care are resorting to pulling their own teeth out, the patient watchdog has found. Those who experience a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain should be able to ...

Experts recommend getting a dental checkup twice a year. Julia Burmistrova/Moment via Getty Images Donald Chi: Low-income people often have difficulty finding and accessing dental care. That ...

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 ...

Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, and others were stained or crooked. Ashamed, she smiled with lips pressed closed. Her dentist offered to fix most of her teeth with root canals and crowns, ...