Sir, recently two young ladies, in their late 20s, attended separately here for private molar root canal treatment. They had both been seeing different local NHS practices and both had been told that the teeth in question were untreatable and had to be extracted. One had been, and still was in a fair amount of pain, and had been given a course of antibiotics for her hyperaemic pulp (which needless to say didnt work) and was told to book for the extraction in a few weeks. One was actually told that the tooth was far too decayed and root filling would be too costly and painful.

In the words of the prophet, 'what a load of old tosh'. The teeth were cariously exposed but eminently treatable, which is what we did.

Something's wrong somewhere!