Britain's most shaggable blogger needs help... -

Although the dentists are now calling themselves “Dr”, we doctors do not call ourselves “dentist”. We did have a compulsory one week lecture course during medical training covering the whole of dentistry, but I have no desire to get out my Black and Decker and attempt some root-canal treatment.

I do however treat patients who need root-canal treatment. I’m really not supposed to but when someone comes in with a swollen, hot jaw and a molar, oozing pus, that looks like the black hole of Calcutta, it is hard not to give them appropriate antibiotics and analgesia. These are the people who never go to dentists. Some are too frightened. Some cannot be bothered. Some genuinely cannot afford it. For some, dental hygiene is not on the agenda. They do not even own a toothbrush. They wait until their teeth fall out, and then get dentures.

And, yes, I tell them to go to the dentist and, no, most of them do not. Even if they are in pain. Too expensive. Not as expensive as that week in Torremolinos maybe, but in this country we do not understand the concept of paying for medical or dental care.

But what do you do if, despite good dental hygiene, you need some really expensive dental treatment and genuinely cannot afford it? In “a blogger who is in need of some sympathy and succour...” The DK spearheads the campaign to raise money to help Trixy, “the most shaggable blogger of 2008”. Trixy, of “Is there more to life than shoes”, needs some expensive dental treatment and cannot afford it. She does not mince her words:

I've just been quoted a huge amount of money for urgent medical treatment which I can't afford to pay because all my savings and every penny I can save in the next few months is going to pay my tax bill so some benefit scrounging scum can have the same treatment for free. That's the reality of live in Brown's Britain. And it will be the same in Cameron's Britain or Clegg's Britain….

Full story in “No light at the end of the tunnel…” by Trixy.

Those wishing to contribute to the fund can do so here.

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