With World Oral Health Day taking place tomorrow (20 March), the results indicate parents in the UK are the most proactive in limiting tooth-damaging sugar with just over half of parents claiming they restrict sugar levels.
Parents in the UK were also top ranked for taking their children at least once a year for a dental check-up whereas less than half of parents in the other nine countries surveyed did so.
The YouGov survey of 10 developed and developing countries was commissioned by FDI World Dental Federation (FDI).
Dr Gerhard K Seeberger is president of the FDI.
He said: 'The oral health profession has largely existed as a separate specialty divorced from medicine and medicine's education system but the intense debate around sugar over the past few years only illustrates the fallacy of working in silos.
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