As cars speed past patients in India’s capital don’t think twice about having their teeth seen to by the city’s popular street dentists.
And it’s not only in New Delhi, it happens in cities all over India.
Self-proclaimed roadside dentists perform complicated dental procedures on patients with limited funds using almost medieval equipment.
There’s no clinic, no costly chairs, no electric drills, there’s no need for an appointment even, patients just pull up a plastic stool and hope the dentist will relieve any pain with a rusty set of pliers.
Street dentist Surinder Singh, 67, from Ludhiana, in the eastern state of Punjab, is a school dropout but learned the dentist trade from his father. He’s now been in this business for 40 years... READ MORE
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