Dental care is not a perk of the job. Medical and dental fitness is a requirement for us to be able to fulfill our task, thus in my view free dental is the least we should expect. I would also point out that as a serviceman who has actually moved around, the cost to myself having to pay private dental care for my wife and children because we can never find a NHS dentist more than penalises me for the small amount of dental care that I require.