24 Sep 2020

Untreated dental problems leading to dangerous self-medication

From Checkpoint, 5:28 pm on 24 September 2020

A Christchurch hospital dentist says people are coming close to death in order to manage the pain of untreated dental disease themselves.

Within the last two months, at least one person a week is being admitted to ICU at Christchurch hospital over untreated dental infection.

Eleisha Foon spoke with dental care specialist Juliet Gray, who says people have been overdosing to manage agonising dental pain.