Supermarket cuts the price of children’s toothbrushes and toothpastes

By taking care of the VAT on seven lines, comprising children’s toothbrushes, toothpastes and mouthwash, Tesco aims to make them as affordable as possible. It hopes that this will benefit families who might be struggling as a result of the cost of living crisis. The price cuts are as follows:

Recent figures show that 23.7 per cent of five-year-old children in England had experienced tooth decay. Children living in the most deprived areas of the country were almost three times as likely to have experience dentinal decay (35.1 pe cent) as those living in the least deprived areas (13.5 per cent). Research has also highlighted that 6.5m children in England have not been seen by an NHS dentist in at least a year.