Abstract Objectives Child dental caries is a global public health challenge with high prevalence and wide inequalities. A complex public health programme (Childsmile) was established. We aimed to evaluate the reach of the programme and its impact on child oral health. Setting Education, health and community settings, Scotland-wide. Interventions Childsmile (national oral health improvement programme) […]
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Children’s oral health progress in Scotland and Wales ‘markedly outstrips’ England
Preventative support programmes and water fluoridation are among the latest recommendations made by Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH). Released today, the new ‘State of Child Health’ report [see * below] outlines what governments and healthcare professionals can do to promote good oral health across the UK. According to the data, England is […]
Childsmile: Inverclyde nurseries battle tooth decay stats
NURSERIES in Inverclyde are helping to reduce the number of young children with tooth decay — but the district still lags behind the rest of the country. Health chiefs say it still has one of the worst such records in the country. But latest figures show a five per cent improvement in the number of […]
Improving children’s oral health – Childsmile programme expands.
More children will benefit from a programme designed to improve their oral health. Childsmile has a multi-disciplinary approach involving the health service and local authorities. Much of what has been achieved has been through the commitment of nursery and primary school staff in providing daily, supervised toothbrushing, and dietary and oral hygiene advice. In deprived […]
Childsmile: Schools and nurseries helping youngsters improve dental care
Schools and nurseries are to supervise more Scottish youngsters brushing their teeth and provide dental hygiene advice. It comes amid growing concerns in recent years that tooth decay among youngsters living in more deprived areas is worse than children in better off neighbourhoods of Scotland. The Childsmile initiative was backed by health secretary Shona Robison […]
NHS dentist ‘conscripted into SNP’s army of state snoopers’
Dental practices in Scotland are now expected to notify young patients’ state guardians if their appointments are cancelled or treatment declined.Even where appointments are missed due to illness and re-scheduled, details are passed to the Childsmile programme set up by the Scottish Government for under-12s. From August, every child in Scotland will be assigned a […]
Pioneering Childsmile programme also saving millions for public purse
Children’s dental health improving An innovative dental health programme is dramatically improving children’s dental health and saving nearly £5 million a year in treatment costs avoided, Public Health Minister Maureen Watt said today. Childsmile offers every child attending nursery in Scotland free daily supervised tooth brushing. In the most deprived areas, this extends into primary […]
BBC: Childsmile dental scheme ‘saves NHS £5m a year’
A scheme to improve children’s dental health is saving almost £5m a year in treatment costs, Scotland’s public health minister has said. Childsmile offers young children free toothbrushes, toothpaste and two fluoride varnish applications per year. Children attending nursery, and those in primary schools in deprived areas, are offered daily supervised brushing. Public health minister […]
Call for water fluoridation across England to cut childhood tooth decay
Excerpt: … As well as fluoridation in water, the RCS wants the government to invest in a national oral health programme, similar to Childsmile in Scotland. The £1.8m Scottish scheme, which includes supervised toothbrushing for children in primary school and nursery in deprived areas has saved more than £6m in dental costs between 2001 and […]
Fluoridation – Alternative solution
The recent headlines that 12 per cent of three-year-olds across England have decaying teeth has already brought calls for water fluoridation to be extended further. Yet there is no evidence to demonstrate that adding fluoride to drinking water will prevent young children developing tooth decay. While 10.8 percent of three year old children in Bedford […]