Podcast explores the depth of the dental access crisis in the North East

Talking on The Northern Agenda podcast, Jennifer Owen, a dentist in Gateshead and chair of the Gateshead and South Tyneside Local Dental Committee, said, “We have had a global pandemic that's had a huge, huge impact on our industry, for many reasons.

“But if nothing else, the lack of access to dentists for such a period of time has basically spawned a whole new generation of people who have never been to a dentist, have no experience of seeing a dentist, that routine regular care is now not part of their life.

"Dentists haven't been going into schools, they haven't been engaging with health visitors and midwives and starting those patterns from a young age. And that, as a generation grows up, will have a huge, profound effect."