Dental Health: Children
(asked on 9th 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 the rise has been in dental caries in children over each of the last five years.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st February 2022
Dental caries in children is not measured every year. Dental surveys of five-year-old schoolchildren are undertaken every two years. These show there has been no rise in dental caries in this age group between the school year 2016-17 and the school year 2018-19. There was no survey in 2020-21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.