As the cost of living crisis bites further, a leading doctor has warned that even toothbrushes are becoming a “luxury item” for some families, and children’s dental health is a “national disgrace”.
Dr Camilla Kingdon, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (rcpch.ac.uk) said it was “a terrible admission of failure” that tooth extraction was the most common reason for a child having a general anaesthetic in the UK, and stressed that the cost-of -living crisis was exacerbating the problem.
