Dental Services: Children

(asked on 22nd October 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on oral health inequalities in children; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 22nd December 2020

No specific assessment has been made of the effect of the COVID-19 outbreak on oral health inequalities in children.

The Dental Public Health Epidemiology Programme annual oral health surveys which include children’s oral health have been affected. The 2019-2020 oral health survey of three-year-olds was suspended on the 18 March 2020 and the 2020-2021 oral health survey of five-year-olds has been suspended until summer term 2021.

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