Leeds woman loses 13 teeth in 7 years without dentist because she was kicked out of practice 'for missing appointment'

Mandy Sharp, 59, says she was struck off her dentist’s patient list when she cancelled an appointment to undergo emergency surgery for a cancerous tumour in 2016. She was forced onto antidepressants when she became suicidal after loosing 12 top gnashers and one bottom - leaving her looking "like a drug addict".

Mandy, from Leeds, has now tried hundreds of dentists as far away as Hull, but has been told none are accepting NHS patients. She said: “I got to the point where I wanted to throw myself out of a window. I’ve lost 13 teeth, and now I’m down to one at the front, and the rest have all snapped off. It’s embarrassing. I feel like a drug addict. People look down on you when you have only got one top tooth."

Mandy had been on the books of Whitecross Dental Care, in Bramley, for six months in 2016 when she was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour and was rushed to hospital. Doctors found the 11cm by 8cm growth close to her coccyx and she spent three weeks in an ICU where she underwent emergency surgery.