National Healthcare, It's Like Pulling (your own) Teeth.

From the Telegraph:

Sufferers pull out teeth due to lack of dentists

By Matthew Moore and agencies

Last Updated: 2:43am BST 16/10/2007

People with toothache are resorting to pulling their own teeth because they cannot find a NHS dentist, a study out today says.

Almost a fifth of those questioned in the biggest patient survey of its kind said that they had missed out on dental work because of the cost. Almost half of the dentists questioned said that their surgery was no longer taking NHS patients The research, involving more than 5,000 patients in England, also found that as many as six per cent had treated themselves because they could not find a dentist.