The British Dental Association has warned oral health inequality among the young is set to widen, as new research commissioned by the Liberal Democrats indicates 6.5 million children in England have not been seen by an NHS dentist for at least a year. The BDA warn the lack of access will disproportionately impact on lower income, higher needs families, widening the UK’s oral health gap. Data obtained by the professional body under Freedom of Information indicates over 15 million appointments for children have been lost since lockdown, well over a year’s worth of dentistry in normal times. In March the
Government sitting on side-lines as child oral health gap widens as seen on The Hippocratic Post.