Go on NHS Choices or ring your local Health Watch! We have a Dental Access Centre for iust such cases. Out patients might not write a prescription either unless there is a dentist around!
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Afternoon all.
Woke up this morning with e very swollen face, left side from beneath my jaw to my cheekbone. Trundled off to the doctor who said it was a dental abscess and they can no longer prescribe antibiotics for dental problems.
He said I needed to get to a dentist asap. Phoned the nearest one, but they had no appointments available. They said to phone again tomorrow morning, but no guarantee that they would have an appointment. I really need it on the NHS, because we just can't afford the costs for private (not after seeing the size of the vet bill for Maurice)
I have a horrible feeling that when I call tomorrow they will say that they will only see me privately. 
My GP says that there will be one I can go to if I phone 111, (apparently there has to be the opportunity to be seen by an NHS dentist in an emergency) but it could be some distance away.
It just seems to be one damn thing after another, especially financially.
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