If children to not have access to a dentist there are “huge consequences” for their oral health.
Irish Dental Association CEO Fintan Hourihan described the problem as a “real scandal” and said key targets are consistently being missed.
“It often means then that small problems become big problems or the diagnosis of, say, dental decay is missed.”Mr Hourihan said the value of regular checkups is “beyond dispute” because it helps catch problems early. “We need more dentists to get in and see children at an early stage to make sure that problems are seen early, [so] that their dental health improves and that we avoid the unpleasant experience that they are now seeing when they have to attend a dentist and they have to have extractions rather than having teeth saved and they have to have far more expensive treatments," he said.
“So, it’s a real scandal that in this day and age, 30 years after this policy was introduced, we’re not even managing to have children seen in primary school at all in some parts of the country.”“The only difference is the severity of the problem,” he said.
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