Dental patients in the East of England will have access to almost 70,000 new, urgent appointments, the government announced.

The NHS Mid and South Essex scheme sees dental teams visit care homes to provide oral health assessments and treatments.

Huge areas of Essex have been left without NHS dental care with thousands living in 'dentist deserts'. Exclusive analysis of the 194 practices in Essex on the NHS’s “Find a dentist” website ...

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A health boss has promised that a county will lose its tag as "the dental desert" within two years. Ed Garrett, chief executive of NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, told the BBC ...