More than 5,000 children were admitted to hospitals in Northern Ireland to have multiple teeth extracted in a year - costing the health service an estimated £9m. In just 12 months, a total of 22,699 ...
Researchers analysed GP and hospital records for children aged 5-16 living in North-East London over a five year period. One in every 200 children had at least one tooth removed under a general ...
Children living in deprived areas are three times more likely to need dental extractions in hospital
In the study, published today (16 July 2024) in BMJ Public Health, researchers from Queen Mary analysed de-identified GP and hospital records for 600,000 children between the ages of five and 16 ...
Aims Although Scotland has the highest proportion of edentulous adults in the UK, the frequency of edentulousness has fallen by 21% during the last 20 years. This study, carried out in 1999, was ...
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