Extractions performed on decayed teeth in children plummeted during the first year of the pandemic, leading to fears that thousands will be left in pain. There were 22,459 episodes of tooth extraction ...

A woman has been awarded £12,500 in an out-of-court settlement after a dentist left her suffering "irreparable" tooth decay. Joanne Russell, 52, was forced to undergo extensive remedial work as a ...

Children and young people living in the most deprived areas of England are nearly three-and-a-half times more likely than their more affluent peers to have teeth removed in hospital due to severe ...

There were 49,112 tooth extractions for children in hospital in 2023/24, shocking new official figures have shown, the equivalent of 134 a day. The costs to the NHS were £74.8 million for all tooth ...

A Devon dentist has spoken publicly about the 'heartbreaking' amount of tooth decay in young children that she sees every day - and how it could all be avoided. Vicki Jephcote, of Torrs Park Dental ...

Tooth decay, also known as dental caries, is the destruction of the hard tooth tissue. For a tooth to decay four factors need to be present: a natural tooth or root surface, sugar, bacteria and the ...