Dental Services: Children
(asked on 29th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, 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.
The number of children in England, under the age of two who received National Health Service dental care in the previous 12 months as of 30 June 2019 is set out in the following table:
Age | Number of children seen by an NHS dentist | Population |
0 | 22,485 | 653,467 |
1 | 162,724 | 674,807 |
2 | 272,151 | 675,045 |
Total | 457,360 | 2,003,319 |
Source: NHS Dental Statistics for England, publication series
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/nhs-dental-statistics