The charity is calling for the immediate rollout of three oral health policies outlined in the review and believes they have the potential to reduce unnecessary trips to the dentist, save people and the NHS millions of pounds, and free up capacity to deliver up to 8.3m more check-ups.
The report, Economic Value of Good Oral Health, was undertaken by Frontier Economics and has been launched to coincide with National Smile Month.
It shows that water fluoridation programmes,sugar-free chewing gum and supervised toothbrushing could result in 1.43m fewer tooth extractions, 1.8m fewer fillings and 265,000 fewer root canal treatments carried out on the NHS every year. The associated savings to NHS dental services could reach over £51m.
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