While 68 per cent of people say they feel more confident with a healthy smile, nearly a third of people (32 per cent) report being stressed or anxious about the state of their oral health.
One in ten people (10 per cent) in England have missed more than two weeks of work in the past three years due to dental problems. The younger workforce has been hit twice as hard, with one in five 16- to 34-year-olds reported to have missed at least a fortnight of work over oral health problems.
Two-thirds of respondents (64 per cent) believe the country is experiencing a crisis in dental service provision, a proportion broadly similar to 2022’s Index (67 per cent).
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