 THE last dentist in North Wales accepting new NHS patients last night warned he may quit the health service. A UK-wide shortage of dentists means patients travel from as far afield as Newcastle upon Tyne and London to Mohammed Razman's Bar-mouth practice. For months, Mr Razman was the last dentist in North Wales willing to accept new NHS patients, while many disillusioned colleagues quit the health service for private practice. Mr Razman signed up 3,000 patients at his surgery, twice the size of an average list. But he warned he might be forced to turn away from the NHS due to pressure of work and dis-satisfaction with a new payments system. "I am loyal to my patients rather than the NHS which is just a system," he said.. "I am representing an area where people aren't well off and most are on income support and are exempt patients. "I look to help them as much as I can." According to the NHS Direct web-site, since last April he was the only dentist in North Wales accepting new health service patient after a dentist in Ruthin decided his list was too big to accept any more work. | 
