Dental Services: Children
(asked on 6th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department holds on the proportion of children under the age of two who have visited an NHS dentist in the last 12 months.
This question was answered on 13th July 2017
The table below shows the number of children under the age of two who were seen by an NHS dentist in England in the 12 months to June 2017.
Patient Age (at 30 June 2017) | Number of Current Child Patients | Population | Access Rate % |
0 | 17,628 | 669,103 | 2.6 |
1 | 132,544 | 669,817 | 19.8 |
Under 2 | 150,172 | 1,338,920 | 11.2 |