While the COVID-19 pandemic may no longer dominate headlines, significant pressures on the UK health and social care sector remain. Within dentistry, a profession with a long-standing association with poor mental health, practitioners continue to feel significant strain in terms of working conditions and financial pressures. They now also face a severe backlog of routine care for NHS patients.
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