Undergraduate dental students are offering Londoners free sets of dentures at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital.
Complete dentures usually cost £319.10 on the NHS and even more privately.
But throughout January, King’s College London undergraduates will be making new sets for those who are edentulous – meaning they have no teeth.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ wrote on X: ‘This month, we are offering a new set of complete dentures made by our undergraduate dental students @KingsCollegeLon, supervised by qualified dentists, for people who are edentulous (have no teeth).’
In July last year, the Mayor’s Office said there had been a decline in the number of people in London and England accessing NHS dentistry.
London was one of the worst-performing regions in the country for accessing NHS dentistry, the data showed.
In 2022-23, the North East and Yorkshire had the highest percentage of patients seen (46.3 per cent) and London the third lowest (37.4 per cent) just behind the South East (36 per cent) and South West (37.1 per cent).
For children, the North West had the highest rate of children seen (59.4 per cent), while London had the lowest (47 per cent).
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