Regional health profile figures have shown on average each five-year-old child in England has at least one tooth actively decayed, been filled or extracted. In more than 25 per cent of counties in England, children of the same age had two or more decayed, filled or extracted teeth. Figures obtained by the party from a Freedom of Information request also showed 64 per cent of primary care trusts were no longer giving dental screening to children in schools, following a...


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