Seven years to visit the dentist was simply too long to wait for Linda Colla, who was forced to pull out her own teeth due to the pain. Colla, 75, began experiencing problems with gum disease and her ...
Dentist warns surgery could be forced to go private due to huge rent hikes with potentially catastrophic consequences for ...
Photo illustration by Oona Zenda of KFF Health News. Becky Carroll was missing a few teeth, and others were stained or crooked. Ashamed, she smiled with lips pressed closed. Her dentist offered to fix ...
Imagine having such a terrible toothache and no access to a dentist that you take a pair of pliers and pull your own tooth. Meet Chester Moody. It’s 1958 in the Jim Crow South: Lorman, Mississippi, to ...