Name Dental Playbox
Provider Action for Sick Children
Dressing up in sets of dentists' scrubs and playing with puppets isn't all fun and games for under-fives at nurseries and schools in Manchester.
Through Action for Sick Children's Dental Playbox project, thousands of young children are brushing up on their knowledge of dental hygiene too.
Launched in 2007 by the charity's former chair Pamela Barnes in response to increasing numbers of young children being hospitalised because of tooth decay, the project aims to improve the dental health of the region's youngest children.
Latest figures from Public Health England, published in September, show that 12 per cent of three-year-olds have visible tooth decay.
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