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Long term erosion of NHS dentistry

bmj · 2026-06-22 · canonical JSON source

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Lala and colleagues present a persuasive account of deteriorating access to NHS dentistry, but their central diagnosis—that overcommercialisation is the primary driver—is misplaced.1 The problem is not that dentistry has become too commercial, but that public provision has been made increasingly unviable.