Many Scots are still finding it difficult to make a dentist’s appointment.

Thousands of Scots remain unable to make appointments with NHS dentists, it has been revealed.

Public health minister Shona Robison noted that as of last September, just 65.4 per cent of Scottish adults were registered with a dentist.

As a result, the minister announced £82 million is to be invested in bringing more NHS dentists to the country in the months ahead.

“We now have outreach training centres in place throughout Scotland, including Aberdeen, Inverness and Dumfries and Galloway and NHS boards now have the authority to appoint directly salaried dentists,” commented Ms Robison.

Elsewhere, Angela Slater, a mother of four from Merstham, Surrey, recently revealed she will have to wait more than four months to have her dentures fitted by an emergency dentist after her addiction to sugar led to her having 16 teeth removed.

Ms Slater claimed, however, that if her plight helps put kids off eating too many sugary foods then she is pleased to have had a positive influence.