A charity set up to provide dental care in third world countries is providing care in Suffolk

A charity set up to provide dental care in third-world countries is visiting rural parts of the UK where people in pain cannot access a dentist.

In November volunteer dental teams spent four days treating more than 150 patients after campaigners contacted the charity.

Now they are returning to Leiston and Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk.

Steve Marsling, co-founder of the Toothless in Suffolk campaign group, said: "The NHS dental service is worsening by the hour.

"People in the Leiston area have been without an NHS dentist for over a year. The Leiston area is one small part of a vast dental desert that has consumed the country."

After the last visit by Dentaid a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: "We are providing the NHS with £50m to secure up to 350,000 additional dental appointments to allow people suffering from oral pain, disease and infection to get the care they need."