The quality of dentures on the national health in the UK is poor.

I speak from experience. 42 years. The main problem is not improving the quality on the NHS (Impossible, for a myriad of reasons and I intend to cover this in detail) but rather offering the unsuspecting public an inexpensive private option of fair quality.

 

So how might we achieve this?

 

When I started as an apprentice dental technician in 1973, a set of dentures on the NHS cost £5.00. and a private set about £25.

 

Using my patent inflation tool, a pint of Youngs ordinary bitter cost 25p hence

 

Nhs full set = 20 pints of bitter               (£5.00)

 

Private set   = 100 pints of bitter            (£25.00)

 

With me so far?

 

What about today

 

NHS full set  =  74 pints @ £3.00per pint                           (£222.50)

Private set     =  500 pints                                                    (£1500.00)

 

So as you can see, in real terms dentures have become a lot more expensive. An increase of 370% for NHS and a whopping 500% for private dentures.

 

How did that happen!