More complaints were made about GPs and dentists in the Hartlepool area last year than before the pandemic, new figures show.
Specialists are waiting to hear whether a judge will allow them to carry out major dental surgery on a mentally-ill Syrian refugee who is thought to have watched torturers pull out his brother's teeth.
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