I AGREE with Mr Lawson ("Unfair to dentists", Letters, November 3) about Aldwark Dental Practice. The treatment is first class and the staff excellent.

Unfortunately, this made my wife all the more upset when, on the retirement of her dentist for more than 15 years and without warning, she, my five-year-old son and two-year-old daughter were removed from the register. It has taken them a year to find another dentist.

Unfortunately, I was not so lucky. I was registered with Mr Flynn of Acomb and now find myself without a dentist and no prospect of getting one.

Kevin Benson,

Lavender Grove,

York.

Updated: 10:00 Monday, November 08, 2004