There were some obvious businesses the nation missed from their everyday lives during lockdown – but who would have thought dentistry would be one of them?
As the pandemic worsened and we faced stricter social distancing rules, the lack of eating out at a restaurant, or a shopping fix in a department store, a pint in the pub or a revamp in a hair or beauty salon became a sad but accepted part of the ‘new normal’.
The one business that suffered the costs of enforced closure, and simultaneously ran the greatest health risk in the instances where practices remained open, was dentistry. Only those in severe pain were prioritised to be dealt with at frontline urgent dental hubs, set up to provide safe environments for emergency care and run by dedicated dental professionals seconded to do battle on the frontline.
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