Woman who says she looks like 'Nanny McPhee' flies out for 'Turkey teeth' after '£19,000 treatment quote'

A woman has flown out to Turkey for dental work after claiming she couldn't see a UK dentist unless she 'took out a second mortgage' and paid £19,000.

Sally Murphy, 58, said she was removed from her dental practice as an NHS patient during the Covid pandemic. She said she tried to get back in contact with them but when she eventually got through, she was told that she couldn't now re-register.

Enamel has started to fall away from a dental bridge she had when she was 22 and one of her teeth has recently fallen out. After struggling to find another practice Mrs Murphy, from Wallasey on the Wirral, looked into going private, but found it would cost more than £19,000.

Wirral has seen one of the biggest drops in the country in NHS dentists, losing 10 per cent of its NHS dentists in the last five years, reports the Liverpool Echo. Only 12 areas have seen higher drops.

Mrs Murphy decided to book an operation in Turkey with the operation, hotel in Antalya, and flights costing her around £5,000, nearly a quarter of what she says she'd have to pay privately in the UK. Despite going ahead with the plan, she said: "Do you know what? I still don't feel confident. I am going today and I am actually terrified."

Dental operations in Turkey - nicknamed 'Turkey teeth' - have gained popularity in the UK, but some people have suffered serious complications as a result, according to a BBC investigation.

A British Dental Association (BDA) spokesman called it 'a national disgrace' that patients were going abroad to receive treatment and said NHS dentistry had become 'a postcode lottery'. During the leadership election, Prime Minister Liz Truss said that dentistry would be one of her top priorities

Many Wirral residents have said they were