Editor

Gareth Jones, of Dinas Mawddwy, cannot find an NHS dentist for his children, after Deintyddfa Deudraeth, Penrhyn, stops providing NHS care for children on 31 May (News, 25February). The Porthmadog surgery, West End Dental, also recently stopped NHS treatment.

Ever since the 2005 Dental Contract was introduced there has been an exodus from NHS dentistry, with little effort from central government to address the problem. Indeed, there is clear evidence that NHS dentistry is being allowed to wither on the vine, as will general medicine, unless we citizens defend our NHS.

I vividly recall a recent insight into American dentistry,involving a charitable, mobile dental unit, offering treatment to those unable to pay. Like some third world country, we have recently seen such mobile units in the UK. The writing is on the wall, defend it, or lose it.

Roger Louvet Porthmadog

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