The charity Healthwatch Somerset has reported it is almost impossible for a new patient to register for an NHS dentist in the county, leading to adults and children living in agony, self-treating or travelling for help.
Cases on its books include a woman who got her husband to pierce an abscess because she could not find NHS treatment. "I was in tears with the pain and got my husband to burst the abscess with a needle and I then had a mouthwash with warm water and salt," she said.
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