IT'S okay for us to be told by Dr Nigel Carter that we need to get regular treatment at our dentist (Citizen, last week) - but has he tried to get one in the area. They are all private and out of reach of many people.

Take, for instance, my children. They started going to the dentist as soon as they had a tooth so that they got used to the dentist and all the equipment. Thirteen years down the line their dentist has gone private and they no longer have a practice that they can go to at all.

All those years of dental care wasted because the dentist want more money from 'private' patients.

I just think it obscene that taxpayers' money - mine and yours - pays for their training but once they are trained they go private.

Family man (name and address supplied).