British Pair To Open Drive-In Dentist Chain

Wed, 12 Dec 2007

Two British entrepreneurs are planning to open a drive-in dentist chain to help solve the crisis in the UK’s Health Service provision.

Fergus and Judith Wilson, who have amassed a £240million property portfolio between them, are looking to recruit around 1,000 dentists from Eastern Europe to help staff a national dentist chain.

The drive-in chain will offer cut-price dental treatment, charging the same or less than NHS clinics across the country.

The two said they had been shocked into action by recent coverage of the mass shortage of UK dentists and dental services by the Daily Mail .

The newspaper revealed how patients have resorted to making trips abroad for treatment or even carrying out DIY procedures, such as pulling out their own teeth, due to difficulties in finding a state dentist .

Mr Wilson said: "It grieves me that the situation has come to this, when the NHS is not providing a basic level of treatment .

"If people are being driven to extract their own teeth, there is clearly something seriously wrong," the 59-year-old added.

He said they’re aim is to build seven 24-hour centres near motorway junctions with patients expected to drive .
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