Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found that children living in areas with high levels of deprivation are three times more likely to have severe tooth decay that requires a dental ...

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found that children living in areas with high levels of deprivation are three times more likely to have severe tooth decay that requires a dental ...

Children living in areas with high levels of deprivation are three times more likely than those in more affluent areas to have tooth decay that requires dental extraction in hospital, warn researchers ...

Extraction (dental) A dental extraction is the removal of a tooth from the mouth. Extractions are performed for a wide variety of reasons. Tooth decay (properly known as dental caries) that has ...

In the study, published in BMJ Public Health, researchers analysed de-identified GP and hospital records for 600,000 children between the ages of five and 16 living in North East London. During the ...