Dental Services: Equality

(asked on 7th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment the Government has made of the dental health inequalities across England.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 23rd March 2022

‘Inequalities in oral health in England’ was published in March 2021. The report found that there are inequalities in oral health in England across all stages of the life course and over different clinical indicators, such as dental decay and related quality of life measures. There are also inequalities in the availability and use of dental services across ages, sex, geographies and different social groups.

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