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COHIPB – England’s answer to Childsmile – is launched
The Children’s Oral Health Improvement Programme Board (COHIPB) has been launched in England to help combat children’s oral health issues.…
Oral health
Efficiently risk assessing children
Shivana Anand and Rebecca Northover highlight the signs that better classify caries risk in paediatric patients. Risk assessing paediatric patients…
Dentistry
Parents believe it’s acceptable for children to have decay
A third of parents believe it’s acceptable for children to have experienced tooth decay before they become a teenager. These results…
Oral health
Changing the headlines
With everybody talking about the alarming figures for children’s oral health recently, Seb Evans went along to the first BSPD…
Oral health
England in crisis
Four months on from his open letter exposing the crisis in England’s NHS dental system, Tony Kilcoyne tells Sophie Bracken…
Oral health
Who’s to blame?
Who is to blame for the faults in dentistry, Michael Watson questions. I listened to a Radio 4 programme last…
Dentistry
Tooth decay in five-year-olds drops to its lowest level since 2008
The number of five-year-olds with tooth decay has dropped to its lowest level since 2008, according to Public Health England.…
Dentistry
Inadequate tooth brushing supervision could lead to child oral health problems
Inadequate tooth brushing supervision could lead to almost four million under-14s developing oral health problems, according to the BDHF. A…
Oral health
‘Crisis’ in children’s oral health with more than 100 extractions every day
The NHS performs more than 100 operations every day in England to remove decayed teeth in children. Costs to the…
Dentistry
Number of children needing hospital tooth extractions jumps by 10%
More than 14,000 children aged five and under have been admitted to hospital for tooth extractions in 2014/15. This comes…
Dentistry
Who is at fault for the increase in hospital tooth extractions?
It is the patient’s fault, not necessarily the dentists’, for an increase in extractions through 2014/15, says Michael Watson. Over…
Dentistry
Rising number of children’s tooth extractions in England
The number of children having their teeth extracted in England has increased, figures from the HSCIC have shown. Numbers rose by…
Dentistry
No quick fix for children’s hospital admissions
The initiative taken by MP and dentist Sir Paul Beresford to obtain an adjournment debate on child dental health in…
Oral health
What can dentists do about the crisis in children’s tooth decay?
Dentists have an obligation to address the epidemic of decay in children, Michael Watson says. Dentists have a ‘key role…
Dentistry
Health Minister backs water fluoridation
The Health Minister responsible for dentistry has backed mass fluoridation of tap water to cut tooth decay – but warned…
Dentistry
Child tooth decay crisis discussed by MPs and Ministers
MPs and Ministers discussed Britain’s child tooth decay crisis and ways to tackle the epidemic. The debate on 3 February…
Dentistry
More severe decay in special schools
Children in special schools have fewer decayed teeth than children in mainstream schools but those affected have more severe decay.…
Oral health
Children’s decay a ‘postcode lottery’
Children’s tooth decay is a ‘postcode lottery’, a new report has found, and therapists are calling for a health summit…
Oral health
Children should have teeth extracted in day clinics, Conservative peer believes
Children should have rotten teeth extracted in day clinics to ease the growing strain on local NHS hospitals, a Conservative peer…
Dentistry