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I was in a pharmacy the other day just browsing the shelves - don’t you think that pharmacies these days stock some fascinating items…?

The I came upon something which really made my skin crawl - a do-it-yourself dentistry kit complete with one of those nerve shattering implements with the little hook on the end. The one the dentist uses to poke around your teeth looking for a cavity until he finds one and you go ” Eeeeekkk!!! “

While they are marketed for that little dental emergency that can strike when you are on holiday miles from anywhere, or in a country where a good and capable dentist is as rare as hens teeth - I still hate to think of myself needing to resort to using one of these kits.

But with the NHS in crisis these days and more dentists opting out of performing NHS work the result is that many people, especially elderly folk, are having to do their own dentistry. You often read now about some old guy who had to pull out his own tooth; and those NHS dentists who are still in the system are now extracting teeth rather than going to the cost of treating and repairing them.

And even worse, I wonder how long it will be before we can buy our own do-it-yourself drill - the thought just does not bear thinking about….

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