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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Australian dentists are becoming increasingly frustrated with having to extract multiple teeth from children as young as two years old, and the consensus is that sugar is to blame. At the Royal Dental ...
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