Layla Waters has shared her agonizing experience of having to pull her own teeth out after Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) failed to provide care. Waters could not secure an NHS dentist appointment for a staggering seven years despite numerous attempts.
Desperate and in great discomfort, Waters had to resort to self-dentistry, using a piece of kitchen roll to yank out her teeth by hand.
“The pain gets to a stage where you just can’t take anymore,” she said.
“You can’t describe the pain. The first time I did it, I almost passed out, it was unbelievable.”
She says she had contacted 60 dentists to try and secure an appointment, to no avail.
Waters’ experience vividly portrays a socialized healthcare system that, in many respects, is failing to fulfill its mandate.
NHS patients who do receive treatment do not always receive the high standard of care that might be expected, given the state health provider’s enormous budget of £164.9 billion (~$208.5 billion).
At least 105 NHS patients had limbs chopped off in error over three years from 2020 to 2023, and almost half of NHS trusts are irradiating patients at elevated levels with expired radiology machines.
The socialized service relies to a great extent on foreigners to meet its manpower demands, including a signifiant number of unqualified fraudsters.
