Dental Services
(asked on 19th July 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of (a) adult and (b) child NHS dental patients in (i) England and (ii) York who have seen a dentist in the last 12 months.
NHS Digital publishes Dental Statistics for England, which is available at the following link:
Official guidance states that adults with good oral healthcare should be seen by a dentist once every 24 months and that children should be seen by a dentist once every 12 months. Therefore, the data is published in this format, so that the number of adults regularly visiting their dentist can be shown.
The following table shows data on the number of adults and children seen by dentists for National Health Service treatment in the 12- or 24-month periods to June 2022. Data for 2022/23 is not yet published.
| Number of adults seen by an NHS dentist in England* | Number of children seen by an NHS dentist in York** | Number of children seen by an NHS dentist in England ** |
66,447 | 16,409,636 | 20, 576 | 5,589,201 |
*Previous 24 months to June 2022
**Previous 12 months to June 2022