Editor’s View – shocking delay in junk food advertising ban
2022-07-02
Seb Evans questions whether a delay in the junk food advertising ban is the best direction to take for our health. Earlier this month the
Child Decay
Dental news you’ve missed this week – 6 May 2022
2022-05-07
Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… More than 2,000 dentists quit NHS in last
More than 10 million dental appointments delayed due to COVID-19
2020-08-24
The BDA estimates a 10 million backlog of appointments due to dental practices shutting down during the COVID pandemic. It believes it could take months
Almost 180 operations every day to extract children’s decaying teeth
2020-08-22
New NHS figures show there were 44,685 extractions of multiple teeth in under-18s in England during 2018/19. This equates to a 17% rise in the
‘Inadequate’ oral health action leaving 3.5 billion with poor dental health worldwide, experts say
2019-07-19
‘Inadequate’ oral health response is leaving 3.5 billion people with poor oral care, dental experts are claiming. A series in The Lancet is calling for radical reform of
Tooth extractions still the most common hospital procedure for children
2019-03-06
Almost nine out of 10 tooth extractions amongst children in hospital are down to preventable tooth decay. Data from Public Health England also shows tooth extractions
Almost six in 10 children didn’t see an NHS dentist last year
2019-02-26
Almost six in 10 (57.7%) children between one and four years old didn’t visit an NHS dentist last year. That’s according to analysis of NHS
Child extractions increase by 18% over last five years
2018-12-04
There were 45,077 extractions of multiple teeth in under 18s in England over the last year. Local Government Association figures also show the cost for
Calls for dental trainees to help educate school children
2018-10-15
Lancashire dentists should be doing more to promote oral health amongst children, Councillor Andrea Kay says. She is calling on practices to send their trainees into
NHS dentists challenged to see 70,000 more pre-school children
2018-05-29
NHS England has challenged dentists to see an additional 70,000 pre-school children over the next year. These calls have come in the hope that they will encourage
Child extractions costing Northern Ireland health service more than £9 million
2018-03-20
More than 5,000 children had multiple teeth extracted across one year in Northern Ireland, a new study has shown. BDA Northern Ireland estimates that the cost
Tooth extractions amongst children reach record highs of almost 43,000 last year
2018-01-15
Teenager and child tooth extractions reached record highs last year, equating to 170 hospital operations a day. The latest figures from the Local Government Association (LGA)