Former miner David Creamer celebrates new teeth after years of 'nothing but soup and painkillers'

The Star, Sheffield

Former miner David Creamer, from Rotherham, celebrates new teeth after years of 'nothing but soup and painkillers.' He snapped four crowns while eating a sandwich in Blackpool, but now he's looking forward to doing back and "eating a proper meal."

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00:00I'm David Creamer, 62, nearly 63 year old. Unfortunately I had a slight accident in Blackpool

00:12last June when I was with a girlfriend simply just by eating a sandwich and what happened

00:19the entire top crown of my mouth virtually, the teeth, came out and I've been trying to

00:26get some kind of dental treatment ever since. I've seen an emergency dentist in Rotherham

00:34who said that they're really that bad, most of them are going to have to come out, buy

00:40a way of taking the roots out etc, we're leaving just a few, but they were taking no NHS patients

00:50whatsoever, in fact anywhere in Rotherham could I get an NHS. I even tried the Charles Clippard

00:58Dental Hospital which is well known for helping people that's not got a dentist and they said

01:05well you need a referral. My answer to that was well I can't get a dentist so I can't get a

01:11referral. So I paid up front and saw another private dentist, 40 quid, who did the full

01:17x-ray and again explained there's a lot of work to do and he's prepared to work in advance now

01:25but it's 5,500 quid, so at the moment I'm on benefits, ESA and the low rate of PIP and there's

01:36nowhere on earth I can afford it, so basically I look like sitting it out while some magic happens,

01:45maybe win the lottery and get these teeth sorted out. I'm on painkillers every day prescribed by

01:53my doctor, three lots of different painkillers and the pain can be very very bad. I'm having to eat

02:01soft drinks all the time, can't eat a proper meal and I haven't been able to now for nearly seven

02:08or eight months. I'm an ex coal miner from Silverwood Colliery Rotherham, was there virtually

02:14until it shut in 94 and all I'm really asking if there's a dentist out there who's prepared to do a little bit of

02:21natural health dentist treatment to help me out I would be grateful for it because I've never known

02:28dentistry sink so far down than it has now. Nobody can seem to get a dentist, people are pulling their

02:36own teeth out with pliers and we're supposed to have a caring government that's supposed to be

02:42about levelling up, well maybe somebody from the government might come and level up and level out my teeth, thank you very much.

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