The number one reason for primary school-aged children being admitted to hospital is to have multiple teeth taken out, newly released figures show. The number of children aged from five to nine ...
Children living in deprived areas are three times more likely to need dental extractions in hospital
In the study, published in BMJ Public Health, researchers analysed de-identified GP and hospital records for 600,000 children between the ages of five and 16 living in North East London. During the ...
Hundreds of children having teeth extracted as hospital treatments hit their highest level in six years in Birmingham. There were 1,464 hospital admissions for teeth extractions for children from the ...
THE cost of removing children's rotting teeth in England has risen 61 per cent since 2010/11 - to £35 million a year. Research has revealed there are more than 100 hospital operations each day to ...
Sugary foods and drinks should carry cigarette-style warning pictures to highlight the risk of the products rotting children’s teeth, according to a senior dental surgeon. Professor Nigel Hunt, dean ...
The scale of “sugar addiction” in England and Wales has been laid bare in data showing that 170 children and teenagers a day are having operations in NHS hospitals to remove multiple teeth that have ...
Hospitals carried out almost 180 operations every day on children and teens last year to remove rotting teeth, costing the NHS more than £40m. The latest figures reveal there were 44,685 surgical ...
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