111 emergency dentist..

[Jimminir]

When did they stop giving out appointments?

My NHS dentist passed away and I can’t find another one at all. I also don’t have hundreds of pounds to spare to continuously pay private.

Woke up yesterday with a tooth ache that’s continuously getting worse. I rang 111 today to get an appointment (Iv done this before years ago and they gave me an appointment at a random dentist).

This time they basically said they had no appointments and just said ring around dentists to get a space. Which is ridiculous advice considering Iv already rang around a load and can’t find a NHS one and most are not taking on new patients full stop either.

Has anyone else called 111 recently and been told the same thing?

I haven’t been able to get onto an NHS dentists patients list since 1996, I honestly wouldn’t have even thought about ringing 111 for dental services because I would have assumed they cannot help.

I haven't been able to get an NHS dentist since I turned 18. I'm 45.
.
111 doesn't do dental as far as I'm aware, in England anyway

Getting a private appointment is pretty impossible too.

Dentistry services are totally fucked.

I have lots of problems with my teeth and absolutely dread the day my NHS dentist retires because I don't know what I'll do. I've only been private once and not only was it an horrendous experience it cost me a bloody fortune.

Dental services in this country are bollocks.

Google Dental Acces Centre near me

111 do appointments for emergency dentists.

Iv used them before when I couldn’t get a dentist … about 6 years ago.

Then I found a NHS dentist but sadly he’s died. They sold the practice and now it’s private!

Thank you. Will do this now

I’m in England as well

I live in Scotland and got an emergency appointment at the dental hospital. I do have a dentist but it was the weekend and it was a root abscess. I think the only reason they took me was that my face had blown up like a pumpkin.

Might be irrelevant as I'm in Edinburgh, could be a different way of things where you are but...

I had wicked toothache last week, its been off and on since January but I'm a wussy and just carried on. Been trying to get a dentist for over 3 years now. Its a nightmare to get one here unless you can go private (which I can't, I'm on mat leave so money is getting tighter now), my teeth are wrecked after severe hyperemisis with my son (now 15 months, daughter is 6 weeks). Toothache kicked off again so I phoned 111 who told me to phone the emergency dental centre in town and gave me the number. Within 2 hours tooth was out and I was home. The usual exemptions apply (free dental care til baby is 1/certain benefits etc). I've heard a lot of folk moan about that centre but I think we're very lucky to have it or I'd still be ringing round dentists today.

I hope you can get seen soon, toothache is bloody awful.

I googled this but it said it’s for people with disabilities? I’m not sure if I meet the criteria?

Maybe I’m looking at the wrong link.

The dental service in UK is totally fucked - it’s difficult to even get a private dentist, if you’re lucky enough to be able to afford that, because so many people have been driven to the private side through sheer desperation.

A couple of years ago we got an emergency dental appointment through 111, yes. They did used to offer that service. I guess there’s no longer any emergency appointments because there’s not enough NHS dentists to cover.

I couldn't get an emergency dental apt for a wisdom tooth infection for love or money! Tried every avenue. In the end I paid a private GP for antibiotics to tie me over until I could get a dentist apt 3 weeks later. I've done that twice now! Oh and I work in the NHS...

I rang 111 for a dentist for DH two weeks ago. He had a very loose painful tooth and couldn't eat. They got a private dentist to ring him with an appointment. It was for the next day and they took it out it cost £28 which I think is the minimum nhs payment. He was very lucky to get seen. We are in West Yorkshire.

I actually have some antibiotics here which Iv started taking to try and ease it!

It’s just ridiculous.

I’m sure it won’t be long and il be willing to drive to West Yorkshire to be seen! 😂

Dentistry is a mess in the UK. I've just had a tooth out after a crown broke and I'm just going to be left with a gap as despite the internet saying you can have a bridge on the NHS, my dentist won't do one and says she doesn't know if any NHS dentist who would. I'm not sure whether I would want one, but as I can't afford it privately (or the more expensive implant) I have no choice.

Ultimately I'm just thankful my family has any kind of access to an NHS dentist right now, and that I'm happy with her work (unlike the previous one, who didn't seem to give a shit). I don't know any that are taking on new patients

I’ve had to resort to getting antibiotics online previously.

Dental services in this country are a joke, I can’t believe there’s isn’t more uproar about it. Never hear politicians speak about it either.

They do in England. My partner got an emergency appointment through 111

A few months ago I was given the same advice from 111. However, rang out of hours (middle of the night) a week or so later, and got an emergency apt the next day. Think it depends on time you ring up.

Thanks.

To be honest I may ring up at stupid o clock tonight and try again.

Il just make out that I’m in worse pain then I am.

That’s the problem with this country, you have to make out you are 100x worse then you are to get anything.

@Jimminir
Are you registered with a dentist?

It cost my friend £190 to have a loose tooth taken out last month by a private dentist..so I am amazed at twenty eight pounds for a private extraction in Yorkshire. Which part of England are you in op

No, I was but he died and he was the only dentist in the practice and his wife was the manager and she sold up after.

111 did say they could charge up to £70. As I say he was very lucky. He has now joined that practice so that's any spare money we had up the spout.

Seventy pounds in the NHS dentists rate for a tooth extraction. They have 3 tiers..seventy is tier 2, 1 s a checkup and 3 s three hundred pounds for a cap etc