Frontline dentist donates PPE to NHS hospital workers

Kunal Patel, who owns Love Teeth in North Cheam in Surrey, sent 3,000 pairs of gloves and 750 face masks to medical colleagues battling COVID-19.

The practice shut its doors to patients seeking routine appointments due to COVID-19 guidance amid the lockdown. 

Kunal said: 'As dentists, we’re acutely aware of the risks of contracting viruses during our work. Keeping our team, patients and the community safe was the priority and we had to think of the greater good.

'Now the whole team stands ready to be deployed when called upon for the wider NHS. Our roles are likely to be secondary to doctors, but we do have useful clinical knowledge, and we want to help our NHS colleagues.'

Kunal was involved in helping to transform London’s Excel Conference Centre into a 4,000-capacity hospital built to treat COVID-19 patients.

As well as donating vital PPE, him and his team have also volunteered their clinics to be Urgent Dental Care Centres providing treatment for acute pain and are now among the frontline staff.