The app has also reached people in 204 countries and remains the only dental app in the NHS App Library.
Each year over 50,000 children in England have a general anaesthetic to remove decayed teeth making it the most common reason for children aged between 5-9 to be admitted to hospital [1]. The operation is traumatic and expensive.
Despite tooth decay being preventable, the NHS spends £50.5 million extracting decayed teeth from children under general anaesthesia every year [2], with a total annual dentistry spend of £3.4 billion. The direct and indirect global economic impact of oral conditions in children and adults has been estimated to be over US$442 billion [3].
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