‘Horrific’ rise in kids needing rotting teeth surgically removed in hospital

Dentists warn ‘we can’t nip these problems in the bud if we don’t get to see them’ as tooth decay is the number one reason ...
DrBicuspid

A century-old method may be key to tooth removal in anxious kids

A tooth-extraction method that originated at least a century ago for patients with hemophilia may be the answer to removing baby teeth from nervous kids, according to research published on July 3 in ...

More than 150 kids have rotten teeth pulled out in hospital every DAY – as ops surge almost a fifth in a year

MORE than 150 kids a day are getting rotten teeth pulled out in hospital in England, grim data shows. Tooth extraction operations in children aged up to 19 surged by almost a fifth in the space of ...
Dentistry

Cost of NHS tooth extractions up by five million pounds

Decay-related tooth extractions cost the NHS £51.2 million in the 2024/5 financial year, according to newly-released ...
The Independent on MSN

‘Horrific’ rise in children needing decayed teeth removed

‘Horrific’ rise in children needing decayed teeth removed - British Dental Association insists that greater efforts are ...
Diss Express

Increase in preventable tooth extractions in children a 'national scandal', says Mark Jones from Toothless in England and Toothless in Suffolk

An increase in the number of children with preventable tooth extractions is a 'national scandal', a campaigner has said.
LBC

Every 15 minutes a child has a tooth pulled out in hospital as figures reveal soaring levels of teeth extraction operations

The Royal College of Surgeons of England said the figures equate to one young person needing extraction due to tooth decay, ...

Inside UK’s candy capital where kids can wait 4 YEARS for a dentist…but it’s not the sweet factories causing the problem

KIDS in Yorkshire, known as Britain’s Candy Capital, have the worst teeth in the country. But is the county’s sweet tooth all ...