- 29.5% of children aged up to two registered with a general dental practitioner in 1999 (34.9 per cent in Scotland)
- 8.6 conceptions per 1,000 girls aged 13-15 in 1990 (8.3 in Scotland)
- 8.3 conceptions per 1,000 girls aged 13-15 in 1998 (8.9 in Scotland)
Dental and oral health in Scotland is poor. A dental survey of five-year-old children in 1999/2000 showed that although Grampian was placed third out of 15 Scottish health boards, it still lay in the bottom third of all health authorities in the UK.
Grampian has a very low dentist to population ratio. This means that there is a very heavy demand on primary care dental services.
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