Dave Morthorpe’s grim prognosis grew even more dire when the last dentist in town packed up, leaving him marooned in the NT outback
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Dave Morthorpe last went to the dentist more than four years ago. He got two teeth extracted and the dentist delivered a grim prognosis. “He said out of all the teeth I do have, I had seven that could be saved with immediate treatment. The rest are either rotted or broken away at the gum line.”
Morthorpe, who lives in the outback town of Katherine in the Northern Territory, had to tell the dentist he couldn’t afford to save those seven teeth. He’d just paid $480 for the 20 minutes it took to extract the two teeth.
