A dentist who has worked in Mitcham for more than half a century has hung up his mask and retired at the age of 77.

Dr Harris Yee-Chong from Queensmere Road, Wimbledon, has worked in the same Streatham Road surgery since 1958.

In the time he has treated everyone from cabinet ministers and TV personalities to oral cancer patients.

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