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According to recent expert analysis published in the British Dental Journal nearly 30,000 children annually check out hospital to have their teeth extracted or perhaps taken care of for decay.

The research was performed by Prof David Moles of Plymouth's Peninsula Dental School. The second writer of the study was Dr Paul Ashley who's head of Paediatric Dentistry at Faculty College London's Eastman Dental Institute.

Medical researchers who've analysed the information described it as "worrying" which the variety of seventeen year olds and under who are admitted to hospital for tooth treatment has experienced a marked advancement after the late 1990's.

A huge public health issue has been highlighted by the findings of re-search published in the British Dental Journal. It was learned that children from poorer areas had been two times as susceptible to necessitate tooth treatment as those from more affluent families and areas.

This particular shocking revelation has lead to derision of the present Labour government's policy associated with NHS dentistry. At this time there also have been messages or calls by some quarters due to the release of the much debated topic of compulsory water fluoridation.

Among the major critics of the Labour Government's NHS Dentistry policy continues to be the Liberal Democrat wellness spokesman, Norman Lamb. Mr Lamb has criticised what he describes as the "appalling lack of access" for the majority of households to NHS dentists and he has called for a "radical overhaul" of the existing NHS dentistry care program.

In an interview held on BBC Radio 5Live Norman Lamb went on record as saying: "One of the attainable causes [of bad kid dental health] is that children will not the dentist enough. We hear continuously about problems in accessing NHS dentists. It genuinely shows a failure of government policy which the situation is getting worse, not better."

The British Dental Journal's data mentioned that for prodentim just 17 year old children between 1997 and 2006 there have been more than five hundred thousand courses of dental treatment in NHS hospitals.

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