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 ...
Diss ExpressOpinion

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.

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 ...

‘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 ...
LBC

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

There has been a rise in the number of children in England needing to have decayed teeth extracted in hospital, data has ...
News Medical

UK soft drinks levy may have reduced tooth extractions in children by 12%, study finds

The UK soft drinks industry levy introduced in 2018 may have reduced the number of under 18s having a tooth removed due to tooth decay by 12%, suggests research published in the open access journal ...