doctor in liverpool told me that nhs dentistry in "this part of the country" is non existent.

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Same in Sweden it's *****.

I just pay if I need a dentist once in a blue moon.

You should get private health insurance in the UK. How much can it be? Less that a RTX 3080 a year..

I pay about £30 a month with Bupa. For that I get 4 hygienist appointments and 2 check ups per year. Sounds great... but it's £360 a year. And that's joint with my GF who pays about £500pa. For what we get, which is about 80 mins of contact each per year, it's not cheap. Plus we have to travel 10 miles or so. There's an NHS dentist 5 minutes walk that we've been on the waiting list for over 15 years for. That's despite them advertising for NHS patients. They only take new patients, ie kids or people with emergency work.