A sharp rise in hospital admissions for children’s dental care.
Researchers from Peninsula Dental School and the UCL Eastman Dental Institute have used data from the Hospital Episodes Statistics resource to identify a marked increase in the number of hospital admissions for children with caries and other dental conditions, between 1997 and 2006.
The study, which is to be published in the British Dental Journal on 11th April 2009, revealed that there were 517,885 NHS ‘episodes of care’ for children with dental conditions in the nine-year period. Of these, over half were for dental caries and 80 per cent involved extractions