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New research shows untreated tooth decay is still prevalent in young children

1 min read Children's dentistry
New data from an independent oral health survey commissioned by one of the UK’s leading oral health charities, Dental Wellness Trust, shows untreated tooth decay is still prevalent in children aged three to 11 and reaffirms the charity’s call for the government to fund more preventative measures to tackle the UK’s current oral health crisis. This comes at a time when half of all children in England don’t have access to an NHS dentist.

Out of a total of 332 children screened in two schools in north London, overall 38 per cent had active untreated cavitated caries (i.e. untreated tooth decay) in their primary teeth. In the children that had untreated tooth decay, an average of 3.6 teeth per child were affected. Rather worryingly, only 42 children had a filling present (i.e. treated cavitated caries) on their primary teeth – that is just 12 per cent of all children in these schools.

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