Prevention of Ill Health: Government Vision Debate
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Paul Beresford
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Prevention of Ill Health: Government Vision
Paul Beresford Excerpts(6 years ago)
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Sir Paul Beresford (Mole Valley) (Con)
As my right hon. Friend is aware, I am a very part-time dentist and I am also a supporter of the British Fluoridation Society. Probably the very biggest reason for children attending hospital for general anaesthetic is to extract decayed, rotten, abscessing teeth caused by dental caries. Fluoridation of the water supplies is a very effective means of prevention. Does he support fluoridation of the water supplies, and what can he do to actively promote it, because, at the moment, it is in only 10% of our supplies?
Matt Hancock
My hon. Friend is of course a dentist, and I would love to listen to him speak in more detail about what we can do to get this right.