At one practice, set to close at the end of June, 7,000 patients are being forced to look elsewhere.
Some NHS dentists are moving to private practices because of low salaries, it has been claimedA shortage of NHS dentists across the west means thousands of patients are no longer receiving treatment.
She said it had been a privilege to work in the "diverse, wonderful, thriving and challenged community", as she prepares to move to work in Keynsham when her current place of work closes."There isn't an option to go private, people can't just go off to a private dentist somewhere," said Dr Herford.
"People will start doing their own treatments. They'll start Googling, 'I've got a toothache' or 'I've got a hole in my tooth' and how do they fix that," she said.Image caption, "This is going to affect tens of thousands of people - because there's hardly any dentists in Bristol now," she said.
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