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By Daily Mail Reporter
A former
soldier pulled his own teeth out with a pair of pliers because he could not
find a dentist to take on NHS patients.
Iraq War
veteran Ian Boynton could not afford to go private for treatment so instead
took the drastic action to remove 13 of his teeth that were giving him severe
pain.
The
42-year-old, from Beverley, East Yorkshire, had not had his teeth looked at
since seeing the army dentist in 2003. He had not been registered with a
dentist of his own since 2001.
DIY: Ian
Boynton pulled out 13 of his teeth with a pair of pliers because he couldn’t
afford a dentist
He said: ‘I’ve
tried to get in at 30 dentists over the last eight years but have never been
able to find one to take on NHS patients.’
But when Mr
Boynton started suffering from toothache in 2006 he decided to take drastic
action.
He said: ‘I
started having pain in a front tooth, which protruded slightly more than the others.
I was constantly fiddling with it and wiggling it because it hurt so much.
‘In the end I
knew it had to come out and had to use the pliers to pull it. Amazingly,
it did not hurt as much as you might think.
‘I think I’d
been prising it that much in the meantime that I’d been killing the nerve.’
In the last two
years Mr Boynton has pulled out 13 top teeth including molars, incisors and
canines. He now only has two teeth left in the roof of his mouth.
He served as a
medic in Iraq in 2003, but six months after leaving the Territorial Army had an
accident while working as a paint sprayer that aggravated an old back injury.
Unemployed Mr
Boynton, who is single, said: ‘It’s a horrible situation to be in when you
can’t afford to go to the dentist when your teeth were so bad.’
In a stroke of
ill-timed luck he has now finally found a dentist to take him on.
Mr Boynton
said: ‘I think the situation has improved slightly because of all the uproar.
Unfortunately it came too late for me.
‘I desperately
needed a dentist because, although I’m no longer in pain, I need to have false
teeth as I’m finding it difficult to eat.
‘Unfortunately
I can’t make false teeth myself.’
A spokesman for
NHS East Riding of Yorkshire said Mr Boynton’s case gave an ‘inaccurate
scare-mongering picture of dental service provision in East Yorkshire based
solely on the claims of one man’
The spokesman
said: ‘As well as 34 dental practices, we have seven dental access centres
across East Riding of Yorkshire, including Beverley, where Mr. Boynton could
access a full range of NHS dentist services.
‘So there is
absolutely no reason why anyone should have to resort to pulling out their own
teeth. NHS East Riding of Yorkshire has invested around 1 million in helping dentists target new patients.
At many of our dental practices appointments are being offered to new patients
within two weeks.
‘Our local
out-of-hours and Accident and Emergency Services would have both been able to
give Mr. Boynton details of how to access emergency/urgent dental services if he
had approached them.’
Ed- DIY Dentistry - He forgot the anesthesia! Downing some tequila or whiskey prior to having a friend plier his teeth out would have been be far less painful. That's the way they used to do it a century ago in Western countries.
The poor fellow claims he applied at 30 clinics to find one that would take his NHS. Board Certified dentists in Mexico and Asia don't take NHS plans either, but they charge 50-75% less than dentists in the West.
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