The challenges facing dental outreach charities

Access through your institution Buy or subscribe ANDY EVANS, Dentaid CEO, discusses the challenges the current environment poses to the charity I'm sitting in Dentaid's mobile

dental unit outside a homeless shelter in Salisbury. We are just minutes away from the city's high-end shops, top performing schools and famous tourist sights. But in this leafy part of

Britain, like almost every other town and city in the country, lie the growing problems of homelessness, inequality and a struggle to access basic healthcare. 'I've been in dental

pain for months but I haven't been able to register with a dentist because I'm homeless,' one patient in her early 20s tells me. 'I've got mental health issues and

suffered from family breakdown. There's so much going on in my life, dental pain is just something I've had to put up with.' This is a preview of subscription content, access

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