More than 100,000 children were denied primary school screening dental appointments last year, according to the Irish Dental Association.
Over 100,000 children were denied primary school screening dental appointments last year, according to the Irish Dental Association .
The IDA says the problem is down to a shortage of public dentists, with a 23% fall in public dentist numbers between 2006-2022.The association's Chief Executive Fintan Hourihan said that the HSE was failing in its duty to provide adequate care to patients under the Health Act. It added that an extra 47,806 examinations were undertaken for children who were seen under the emergency dental care programme last year.
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