20,000 children with rotten teeth missed out on agony-relieving op during Covid
Daily MailThousands children missed out on getting their rotten teeth removed because of Covid, data suggests. The graph shows the number of tooth extractions performed on under-19s in England per year, split by how many were due to tooth decay or for other reasons. Health chiefs estimate tooth extractions — the top cause of young children being admitted to hospital for over a decade — costs the NHS £21.8million per year, with decay-related removal alone costing £13.8million. The OHID data shows there were treatment disparities across the country, with the North East seeing 285 tooth extractions per 100,000 under-19s, compared to just 72 per 100,000 in the West Midlands. Charlotte Waite, chair of the BDA's England community dental services committee, said: 'Tooth extractions among children have collapsed, but the level of demand hasn't gone anywhere.
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